How does cpanel site hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web site hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all web space hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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 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 name)
Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!
Downside Number Two: The very same mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.
Problem No.3: An entire shortage of domain administration interfaces
Do we need to cite the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Downside Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...