How cPanel Web Hosting Functions
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered most website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, 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 server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
Are you getting nonplussed? We certainly are!
Negative Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.
Negative Side Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain management GUIs
Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Shortcoming Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)
What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to get to know... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...