How does cpanel web hosting function?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
200,000 "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web site hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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)
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 becoming confused? We unquestionably are!
Weakness No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.
Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain management tools
Do we need to point out the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the keen users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...