How does cpanel hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on today's web space hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!
Drawback Number Two: The very same email folder system
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.
Negative Aspect Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation sections
Do we need to bring up the utter shortage of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Negative Side No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the ardent clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...