How does cpanel website hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web space hosting market is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web space hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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)
Are you getting perplexed? We definitely are!
Weak Side No.2: The same email folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.
Predicament Number 3: A thorough lack of domain management sections
Do we have to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number 4: Many login locations (min two, max 3)
How about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...