How does cpanel site hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most site hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number 1: A foolish domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains 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 popular 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing 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)
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 name)
Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.
Negative Sign No.3: An utter absence of domain name management sections
Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Weak Side Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...