How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all web page hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number One: A moronic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how marvelous 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 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)
Are you growing bewildered? We positively are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The very same email folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.
Downside Number Three: A complete shortage of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we have to refer to the utter deficiency of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Problem No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...