How does cpanel site hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web site hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 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 growing disorientated? We clearly are!
Weakness Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.
Negative Point No.3: A sheer absence of domain name administration menus
Do we have to cite the thorough lack of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...