How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly 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 hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The website hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's web space hosting market is... Period.
The hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 growing confused? We clearly are!
Drawback No.2: The same e-mail folder system
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.
Problem Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name manipulation menus
Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Predicament Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the eager clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: 120+ Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...