How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The web site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web site hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most site hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament No.1: A dumb domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 disorientated? We definitely are!
Negative Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.
Shortcoming Number 3: An absolute absence of domain name administration menus
Do we need to mention the absolute deficiency of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Problem Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting CP menus to get to know... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...