How does cpanel web site hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number One: A moronic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 getting nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.
Weak Point No.3: A sheer shortage of domain administration interfaces
Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Negative Point Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)
How about the need for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: 120+ web page hosting CP sections to learn... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...