How does cpanel web site hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly 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 hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200,000 "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all site hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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)
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 name)
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 getting baffled? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The very same email folder setup
The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Drawback No.3: An absolute lack of domain name management options
Do we have to mention the absolute lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Weak Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing system (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...