How does cpanel hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present site hosting market is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside No.1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good 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)
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 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 disorientated? We undoubtedly are!
Downside Number Two: The very same mail folder setup
The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.
Predicament Number 3: A complete absence of domain management tools
Do we have to bring up the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Drawback Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max 3)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the avid clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...