How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web page hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number 1: A dumb domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide 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)
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 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)
Are you getting confused? We surely are!
Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.
Shortcoming Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to refer to the utter absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max 3)
How about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting company. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ hosting CP sections to learn... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...