How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, today 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% of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary site hosting market is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all webspace hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 erase on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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)
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 becoming nonplussed? We unquestionably are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.
Weak Point Number Three: An absolute lack of domain name management interfaces
Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...