How does cpanel web site hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based site hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 becoming confused? We unquestionably are!
Downside No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.
Shortcoming Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain administration menus
Do we have to mention the total lack of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Weak Point Number 4: Many login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to learn... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...