How does cpanel website hosting function?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole site hosting market furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number One: A dumb domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 perplexed? We positively are!
Downside Number Two: The same mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.
Shortcoming No.3: A sheer absence of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we have to bring up the sheer lack of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Drawback Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP areas to memorize... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...