How does cpanel hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web site hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most web space hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing 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)
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)
Are you getting baffled? We definitely are!
Negative Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Negative Point No.3: A complete shortage of domain name management options
Do we have to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Problem No.4: Many user login places (min two, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to learn... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...