How does cpanel website hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day site hosting market is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most webspace hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side Number 1: A stupid domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.
Weakness Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain administration interfaces
Do we have to point out the entire absence of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Drawback No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing system (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP menus to learn... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...