How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on today's web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!
Negative Sign No.2: The same mail folder configuration
The email folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Weak Point Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...