How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200,000 "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current hosting market is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. 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 web site hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most site hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove fully 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 delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name 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 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)
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 baffled? We absolutely are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.
Weak Side No.3: A complete shortage of domain name administration tools
Do we have to point out the thorough lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Weakness No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...