How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" 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 space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current site hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number One: A laughable domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how excellent 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 name)
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 name)
Are you becoming puzzled? We doubtlessly are!
Weakness No.2: The very same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.
Weak Point Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name administration tools
Do we need to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Disadvantage No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoicing platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the keen users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...