How does cpanel website hosting work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web space hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web page hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most webspace hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
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 becoming baffled? We absolutely are!
Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder system
The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.
Problem Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain name management interfaces
Do we need to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, max 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the eager users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...