How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most web site hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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)
Are you getting puzzled? We undeniably are!
Shortcoming No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.
Problem Number 3: An entire lack of domain management interfaces
Do we need to point out the total shortage of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a major inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel sections to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...