How does cpanel website hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity 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 practically no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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 puzzled? We undeniably are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The same email folder setup
The mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.
Downside No.3: An entire absence of domain name management interfaces
Do we need to refer to the complete absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number Five: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...