How does cpanel web site hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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)
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 becoming perplexed? We absolutely are!
Downside Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.
Negative Side Number Three: An utter lack of domain name administration GUIs
Do we need to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...