How does cpanel site hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web space hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based site hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all webspace hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number One: An idiotic domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!
Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same mail folder system
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.
Weak Point Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name management tools
Do we have to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting CP areas to learn... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...