How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web site hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web page hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current webspace hosting market is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most webspace hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side Number 1: A foolish domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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)
Are you growing confused? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Aspect Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.
Shortcoming Number 3: A complete lack of domain name administration options
Do we need to bring up the absolute shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Problem Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the keen users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...