How does cpanel web site hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the current web site hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The website hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web site hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most web page hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side No.1: A stupid domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete 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 domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent 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 name)
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 becoming confused? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Point Number Two: The same email folder setup
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Negative Sign Number 3: A total absence of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to refer to the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...