How does cpanel web hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web space hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)
Are you growing baffled? We positively are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same email folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.
Weak Point No.3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation options
Do we have to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...