How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current site hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most web space hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
Are you growing perplexed? We clearly are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration
The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.
Drawback Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain name management tools
Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Problem Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum three)
What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, depending on the billing platform (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting CP menus to learn... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...