How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present site hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web site hosting market is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most web space hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming No.1: A stupid domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 getting bewildered? We certainly are!
Problem No.2: The very same email folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.
Negative Side Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to cite the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, max three)
What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: 120+ web page hosting CP menus to pick up... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...