How Does cPanel Hosting Function?
cPanel-based website hosting or... cPanel site hosting?!?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present-day hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The webspace hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all a piece of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most web site hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience No.1: A ludicrous domain folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify 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)
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 name)
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 getting puzzled? We surely are!
Problem Number Two: The very same email folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.
Shortcoming Number Three: A complete lack of domain management GUIs
Do we have to bring up the total shortage of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Point No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to memorize... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...