How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web page hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most site hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good 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 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 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 nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!
Predicament No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.
Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name administration options
Do we need to cite the utter absence of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Weak Side No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...