How does cpanel website hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on today's web space hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web page hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most site hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are placed 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 name)
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 baffled? We certainly are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.
Weakness No.3: A complete lack of domain name manipulation menus
Do we have to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Problem Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: 120+ hosting CP sections to get to know... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...