How does cpanel website hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point No.1: A stupid domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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)
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 confused? We categorically are!
Weak Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Weak Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain administration sections
Do we have to point out the total shortage of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Negative Side Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: 120+ CP departments to become familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...