How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200k "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current webspace hosting market is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web site hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 confused? We doubtlessly are!
Drawback Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.
Weak Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name administration sections
Do we need to point out the thorough absence of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)
How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 CP sections to grasp... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...