How does cpanel web site hosting work?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: 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 web page hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200k "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k site hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all webspace hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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)
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 undeniably are!
Disadvantage No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.
Problem Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation options
Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Point No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament No.5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel sections to pick up... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...