How does cpanel website hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on today's web page hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web page hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most site hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number One: An imbecilic domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 getting disorientated? We positively are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Negative Point Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration tools
Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Drawback Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the need for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...