How does cpanel web hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely 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 hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most site hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
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 baffled? We positively are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The very same email folder setup
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.
Negative Aspect No.3: A sheer absence of domain name management sections
Do we have to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Weakness Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)
How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...