How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all web space hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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 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 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)
Are you getting perplexed? We definitely are!
Problem No.2: The same mail folder system
The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.
Negative Point No.3: An entire lack of domain administration options
Do we have to mention the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Weak Point Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...