How does cpanel website hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number One: A laughable domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming confused? We positively are!
Weakness No.2: The same electronic mail folder system
The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.
Inconvenience No.3: A complete lack of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we have to bring up the entire lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...