How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200,000 "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The web space hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web page hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number One: An imbecilic domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 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)
Are you growing disorientated? We definitely are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The same e-mail folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too harshly.
Weakness No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation options
Do we need to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Negative Side Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 web site hosting CP areas to pick up... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...