How does cpanel hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most webspace hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good 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)
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 disorientated? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The very same email folder system
The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Negative Sign Number 3: A total absence of domain administration menus
Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Drawback Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: 120+ Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...