How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The web space hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present site hosting market is... Full stop.
The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied most web page hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase fully 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 domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 becoming disorientated? We clearly are!
Inconvenience No.2: The same mail folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.
Weak Side Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain management GUIs
Do we have to point out the sheer deficiency of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Sign Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to memorize... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...