How does cpanel web site hosting function?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all webspace hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number One: A dumb domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 domain names, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 name)
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 confused? We surely are!
Downside Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.
Downside Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain administration sections
Do we need to refer to the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Drawback No.4: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: 120+ webspace hosting CP menus to pick up... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...