How does cpanel web hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present site hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's hosting market is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most site hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove fully 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 quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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 wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)
Are you getting baffled? We undeniably are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Negative Sign Number Three: An entire lack of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Downside Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the billing tool (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to become familiar with... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...