How does cpanel website hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's site hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number 1: A foolish domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
Are you growing disorientated? We undoubtedly are!
Drawback Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.
Problem Number 3: An entire absence of domain manipulation sections
Do we have to mention the entire shortage of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Problem Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)
How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: 120+ CP menus to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...