How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web space hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number One: A foolish domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 name)
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 growing perplexed? We undeniably are!
Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration
The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.
Problem Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation sections
Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Drawback No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum 3)
What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Problem Number Five: 120+ site hosting CP sections to get to know... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...