How does cpanel site hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web page hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most webspace hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side No.1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting 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 is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 puzzled? We absolutely are!
Predicament Number 2: The same email folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.
Downside Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name management sections
Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing platform (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...