How does cpanel-based site hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200,000 "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web space hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: A moronic domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, 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 hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 bewildered? We undoubtedly are!
Weak Point Number Two: The same mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Weakness Number 3: An utter lack of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to bring up the entire absence of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a major predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Negative Sign Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the keen customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than 120 web space hosting CP menus to pick up... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...