How does cpanel hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200,000 "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all site hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful 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)
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 growing disorientated? We categorically are!
Downside Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.
Weakness Number Three: A thorough absence of domain name administration sections
Do we need to mention the utter absence of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Side Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...