How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the current web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most site hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 name)
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 getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.
Predicament Number 3: A sheer absence of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP menus to grasp... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...