How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all webspace hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous 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 name)
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 growing confused? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder configuration
The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.
Negative Sign Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name administration menus
Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the devoted users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...