How does cpanel website hosting function?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k webspace hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem No.1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 growing confused? We categorically are!
Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation interfaces
Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Weak Point No.4: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...