How does cpanel site hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered all web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)
Are you getting confused? We categorically are!
Downside Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Negative Side No.3: A sheer lack of domain name administration GUIs
Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Many user login places (min two, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the keen users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...