How does cpanel hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web page hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all web page hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number One: A foolish domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Decide for yourself how excellent 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 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 name)
Are you getting confused? We definitely are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Negative Aspect No.3: A total deficiency of domain name management interfaces
Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a major downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: 120+ Control Panel menus to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...