How does cpanel hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web space hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary site hosting market is... Full stop.
The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to erase 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous 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)
Are you becoming bewildered? We undeniably are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too severely.
Downside No.3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Negative Point Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the devoted clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...