How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly 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 hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 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 name)
Are you getting puzzled? We clearly are!
Weakness Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.
Downside Number 3: An utter lack of domain manipulation options
Do we need to bring up the entire shortage of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Weakness No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: 120+ site hosting CP menus to grasp... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...