How does cpanel-based website hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The website hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number One: A dumb domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase fully 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 easy to erase on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)
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 absolutely are!
Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Weak Point Number Three: A total lack of domain administration tools
Do we have to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting service provider. At times, based on the billing transaction system (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP menus to memorize... fast
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...