How does cpanel website hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k webspace hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web site hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number One: A foolish domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to remove entirely 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 simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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 getting nonplussed? We surely are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same email folder configuration
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Weakness No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation options
Do we need to mention the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Weak Side Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the earnest users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Problem Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting firms:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...