How does cpanel hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current web page hosting market is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web site hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to remove completely 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 very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are created 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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)
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 nonplussed? We categorically are!
Weak Side Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.
Problem No.3: A complete absence of domain administration options
Do we need to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 web space hosting CP areas to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...