How does cpanel site hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on today's site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly 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 web space hosting market offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all web page hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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 confused? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.
Downside No.3: A total shortage of domain administration tools
Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Negative Side Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the keen customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...