How does cpanel hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200,000 "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web site hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all site hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number 1: A laughable domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 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 confused? We surely are!
Predicament Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Downside Number Three: A complete absence of domain management tools
Do we need to refer to the utter deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Predicament Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)
What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...