How does cpanel site hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current webspace hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 confused? We undeniably are!
Disadvantage Number 2: The same email folder arrangement
The mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Negative Side Number Three: An utter lack of domain manipulation options
Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...