How does cpanel web hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number 1: A stupid domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to erase completely 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 domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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 amazing cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 disorientated? We definitely are!
Predicament No.2: The same mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Problem No.3: An utter lack of domain manipulation options
Do we need to point out the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Weakness No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting provider. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...