How Does cPanel Site Hosting Work?
cPanel web site hosting or... cPanel-based hosting?!?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all site hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain 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 name)
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 getting puzzled? We undoubtedly are!
Downside No.2: The same mail folder system
The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.
Problem No.3: A thorough absence of domain name management sections
Do we need to mention the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Side Number 5: 120+ web site hosting CP areas to pick up... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...