How does cpanel web site hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole site hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web site hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove completely 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 domains are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 name)
Are you growing nonplussed? We positively are!
Negative Side No.2: The same email folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.
Weak Point Number 3: A sheer absence of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we need to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Downside Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)
What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).
Downside No.5: More than 120 site hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...