How does cpanel website hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most website 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 domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 growing confused? We clearly are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.
Weakness Number 3: A sheer lack of domain administration options
Do we need to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP areas to grasp... fast
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...