How Does cPanel Web Site Hosting Work?
cPanel site hosting or... cPanel website hosting?!?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the current web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's hosting market is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all a piece of
Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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)
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 name)
Are you getting bewildered? We certainly are!
Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Negative Aspect No.3: An utter shortage of domain name management tools
Do we need to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...