How does cpanel website hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web page hosting market is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point No.1: A moronic domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
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 perplexed? We clearly are!
Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.
Weak Side No.3: A thorough lack of domain management options
Do we need to point out the total absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Problem Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the need for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP departments to grasp... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...