How does cpanel site hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain 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 name)
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)
Are you growing confused? We undeniably are!
Weak Side No.2: The same email folder setup
The email folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.
Problem Number 3: A total absence of domain administration sections
Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a major weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: 120+ web site hosting CP menus to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...