How does cpanel website hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present web space hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web space hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's webspace hosting market is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are located 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 placed 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. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 name)
Are you getting confused? We categorically are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder configuration
The email folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.
Negative Side No.3: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation sections
Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Inconvenience No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)
How about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...