How Does cPanel Site Hosting Operate?
cPanel-based web hosting or... cPanel site hosting?!?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day site hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered all site hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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 puzzled? We positively are!
Problem Number 2: The same mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.
Predicament No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management menus
Do we need to point out the utter absence of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP areas to get familiar with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...