How does cpanel web hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web page hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web space hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most site hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number 1: An idiotic domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing 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)
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)
Are you becoming perplexed? We unquestionably are!
Weakness No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.
Disadvantage No.3: An utter deficiency of domain administration sections
Do we have to refer to the complete absence of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Point No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP areas to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...