How does cpanel website hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The web space hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day site hosting market is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most web site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side No.1: A stupid domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, 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, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 name)
Are you becoming baffled? We unquestionably are!
Weak Side No.2: The very same email folder configuration
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.
Shortcoming No.3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation menus
Do we have to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Weak Side No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the keen users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Point No.5: 120+ Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...