How does cpanel-based website hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k webspace hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 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 disorientated? We undeniably are!
Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Negative Aspect Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management tools
Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Problem No.4: Many user login places (min two, max 3)
What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: 120+ web space hosting CP menus to learn... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...