How does cpanel website hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the current web space hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The webspace hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web space hosting market is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all web space hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)
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 confused? We unquestionably are!
Weak Side No.2: The same e-mail folder system
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.
Predicament No.3: An entire deficiency of domain administration menus
Do we need to mention the complete absence of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Negative Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing tool (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the eager users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to learn... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...