How does cpanel web site hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's webspace hosting market is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all web site hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 name)
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 becoming puzzled? We undoubtedly are!
Problem No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Weak Side No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)
How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...