How does cpanel website hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are placed 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover 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)
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 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 baffled? We categorically are!
Inconvenience Number Two: The same email folder structure
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.
Weakness Number Three: An utter absence of domain name manipulation interfaces
Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Downside Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...