How does cpanel-based website hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web space hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most web page hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number 1: A dumb domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)
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 confused? We definitely are!
Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.
Negative Point Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we need to cite the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Weakness No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)
How about the need for an additional login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to pick up... fast
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...