How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The webspace hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all web site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 getting bewildered? We clearly are!
Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder configuration
The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.
Negative Aspect Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we need to cite the entire absence of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Problem Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP areas to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...