How Does cPanel-based Website Hosting Work?
cPanel-based hosting or... cPanel-based web site hosting?!?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same thing: mostly cPanel hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a website hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based hosting supplier is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most web page hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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 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 becoming perplexed? We categorically are!
Negative Point Number 2: The same email folder structure
The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.
Weak Point Number Three: A total lack of domain name administration tools
Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...