How does cpanel site hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 getting perplexed? We positively are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The very same email folder structure
The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.
Weak Side No.3: A complete deficiency of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Weak Side Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...