How does cpanel hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200,000 "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The web space hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web page hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web page hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
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 growing nonplussed? We categorically are!
Weak Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Disadvantage Number Three: A complete absence of domain administration user interfaces
Do we need to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the need for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...