How does cpanel web site hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the current web site hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present site hosting market is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most web site hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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 perplexed? We positively are!
Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder system
The e-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 chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.
Weak Side Number 3: A complete shortage of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we have to bring up the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...