How does cpanel-based website hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied most hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover 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 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 name)
Are you becoming disorientated? We undeniably are!
Predicament No.2: The same email folder arrangement
The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.
Weakness Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name management interfaces
Do we have to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Downside Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...