How does cpanel site hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k site hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most site hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, 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 web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 getting bewildered? We definitely are!
Problem Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.
Drawback No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain management options
Do we need to cite the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Weak Point Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...