How does cpanel site hosting function?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k site hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number One: An idiotic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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 becoming bewildered? We definitely are!
Shortcoming No.2: The very same email folder structure
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.
Weak Point No.3: An utter deficiency of domain administration GUIs
Do we need to cite the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the need for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to learn... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...