How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web page hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most site hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 name)
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 getting nonplussed? We absolutely are!
Negative Point No.2: The same email folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Weak Point No.3: A complete absence of domain administration menus
Do we need to point out the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the billing tool (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ webspace hosting CP sections to get to know... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...