How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the present web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Period.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all site hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 name)
Are you becoming baffled? We unquestionably are!
Problem No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute absence of domain manipulation menus
Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Problem Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to grasp... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...