How does cpanel web site hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary hosting market is... Period.
The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most webspace hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: A foolish domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 becoming confused? We clearly are!
Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure
The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Weak Side Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation menus
Do we have to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP sections to learn... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...