How does cpanel site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered all web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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 growing baffled? We unquestionably are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Negative Side Number Three: A complete lack of domain name management options
Do we need to mention the sheer absence of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a great idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...