How does cpanel site hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)
Are you getting baffled? We definitely are!
Downside No.2: The same mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.
Downside Number Three: A total absence of domain administration sections
Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)
What about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...