How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200,000 "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase completely 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 web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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)
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 positively are!
Downside Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.
Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough absence of domain administration tools
Do we need to refer to the complete deficiency of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...