How does cpanel website hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all webspace hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number One: A foolish domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!
Disadvantage No.2: The very same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.
Negative Side Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name administration interfaces
Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing system (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...