How does cpanel site hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The website hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all web page hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number 1: A stupid domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 getting puzzled? We definitely are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The very same mail folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.
Weak Point Number Three: A complete absence of domain management tools
Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Weakness No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the billing system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...