How does cpanel site hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's site hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete entirely 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 domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 bewildered? We absolutely are!
Downside Number Two: The same email folder configuration
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.
Negative Aspect No.3: An entire deficiency of domain administration sections
Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Drawback No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max 3)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...