How does cpanel web hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole site hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness No.1: A dumb domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe 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 name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 definitely are!
Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.
Negative Aspect Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain administration sections
Do we have to cite the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Sign Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the eager users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...