How does cpanel website hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's web site hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web site hosting market is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most web page hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign No.1: A laughable domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
Are you becoming disorientated? We unquestionably are!
Weak Side No.2: The very same mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.
Negative Point Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain management GUIs
Do we need to bring up the absolute absence of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a big problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Negative Side No.4: Many user login locations (min two, max three)
How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to learn... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...