How does cpanel web hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all web page hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: A stupid domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete 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 domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because 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. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 becoming nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.
Problem No.3: An utter absence of domain administration options
Do we have to cite the entire deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Problem No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, max 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. At times, based on the billing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel sections to pick up... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...