How does cpanel web site hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
200k "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 name)
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 becoming disorientated? We doubtlessly are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same email folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.
Drawback Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation tools
Do we have to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Downside No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the need for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...