How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web space hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 site hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all web page hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase entirely 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 domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 name)
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)
Are you growing perplexed? We doubtlessly are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder system
The email folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.
Negative Aspect No.3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation menus
Do we have to point out the total shortage of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Predicament Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...