How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current hosting market is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most site hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 getting puzzled? We surely are!
Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.
Weak Side Number Three: A complete lack of domain management tools
Do we have to cite the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable problem. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Disadvantage Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max three)
How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to learn... fast
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...