How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
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 fashionable and probably covered all hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, since 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 placed 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. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 nonplussed? We positively are!
Inconvenience Number Two: The same email folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.
Negative Sign Number Three: An utter absence of domain name management menus
Do we need to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the billing system (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP sections to memorize... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...