How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web page hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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)
Are you growing disorientated? We clearly are!
Downside No.2: The same email folder setup
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.
Predicament No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration menus
Do we have to cite the entire lack of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...