How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: 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 whole web hosting marketplace supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web space hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current web space hosting market is... Period.
The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 name)
Are you becoming disorientated? We doubtlessly are!
Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.
Negative Aspect Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain management tools
Do we need to bring up the total shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Problem Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, max three)
How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel sections to get to know... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...