How does cpanel website hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small business niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200k "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The website hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 site hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most webspace hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous 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)
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 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 growing disorientated? We doubtlessly are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.
Negative Sign Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name management tools
Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Predicament Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...