How does cpanel site hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present-day site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current web page hosting market is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most webspace hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side Number 1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing 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)
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)
Are you getting baffled? We positively are!
Problem Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.
Inconvenience Number Three: A total absence of domain manipulation menus
Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the earnest customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...