How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web space hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number One: An imbecilic domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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)
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 confused? We surely are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The same email folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.
Weak Side Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: 120+ Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...