How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's webspace hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all website hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase completely 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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)
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 becoming confused? We absolutely are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Drawback Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation menus
Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting provider. At times, based on the invoicing platform (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP areas to become familiar with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...