How does cpanel website hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most webspace hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem No.1: A foolish domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 confused? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.
Drawback Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name administration interfaces
Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP departments to become familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...