How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k site hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most web space hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Decide 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 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)
Are you getting baffled? We surely are!
Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure
The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.
Predicament Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain administration GUIs
Do we need to refer to the total absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a big drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)
How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the earnest users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...