How does cpanel web site hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most webspace hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: A foolish domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to delete entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 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 bewildered? We undeniably are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.
Disadvantage Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain administration menus
Do we need to cite the total absence of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Weakness No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... fast
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...