How does cpanel web hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web site hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
Are you getting baffled? We clearly are!
Weak Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.
Negative Side No.3: An utter absence of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Downside No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the eager users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to memorize... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...