How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current site hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web space hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase entirely 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 very simple to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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 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 getting confused? We positively are!
Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration
The mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Problem Number 3: An utter absence of domain administration sections
Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Side Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max three)
What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...