How does cpanel website hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all web site hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names 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 famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 getting baffled? We absolutely are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Negative Side Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we need to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a considerable downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the zealous users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 Control Panel areas to grasp... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...