How does cpanel hosting work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present site hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web space hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 becoming baffled? We categorically are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute absence of domain management menus
Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...