How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web space hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most web space hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 name)
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 growing perplexed? We clearly are!
Negative Side Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.
Negative Sign Number 3: A complete absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we need to cite the entire absence of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the avid users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ web site hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... fast
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...