How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current site hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.
The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number One: A dumb domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete entirely 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 quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 name)
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 becoming disorientated? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Point No.2: The very same email folder setup
The email folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.
Weak Point Number 3: A sheer lack of domain management menus
Do we have to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)
What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...