How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web space hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all web space hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, since 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 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. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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 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)
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 growing perplexed? We surely are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Predicament No.3: A total deficiency of domain administration tools
Do we need to mention the utter lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...