How does cpanel web site hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most site hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 getting baffled? We certainly are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration
The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.
Weak Side Number Three: An entire absence of domain administration user interfaces
Do we need to cite the utter lack of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great problem. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. At times, based on the billing transaction system (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...