How does cpanel site hosting function?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200k "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The web hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all web page hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience No.1: A foolish domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 growing baffled? We certainly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same email folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.
Problem No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration options
Do we have to bring up the complete lack of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Negative Side Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting company. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...