How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web page hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: A foolish domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 baffled? We categorically are!
Shortcoming No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.
Weakness No.3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Point Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to grasp... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...