How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The web space hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most website hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 name)
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 perplexed? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder setup
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.
Weak Side No.3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation options
Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the keen users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP areas to pick up... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...