How does cpanel website hosting work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all web page hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem Number 1: A foolish domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 remove on the hosting 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 situated 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. Check for yourself how wonderful 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 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)
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 becoming confused? We definitely are!
Problem Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement
The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.
Negative Point Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a big disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Negative Sign Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...