How does cpanel website hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The webspace hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem Number One: A moronic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)
Are you getting nonplussed? We certainly are!
Downside Number Two: The same email folder configuration
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Downside No.3: An absolute absence of domain name administration menus
Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Predicament No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the billing system (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to learn... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...