How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all web site hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Examine for yourself how fantastic 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 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)
Are you growing confused? We definitely are!
Weak Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.
Weakness No.3: A complete lack of domain administration menus
Do we have to refer to the total shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Negative Sign No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...