How does cpanel web hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
200,000 "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase 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 name is a folder located 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 fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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 name)
Are you growing perplexed? We undoubtedly are!
Weak Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure
The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.
Downside Number 3: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation sections
Do we have to point out the entire absence of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Disadvantage Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting CP areas to grasp... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...