How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most website hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 name)
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)
Are you growing puzzled? We surely are!
Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.
Disadvantage Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration interfaces
Do we have to cite the complete absence of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. At times, based on the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting vendor is availing of, the avid clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...