How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met most web site hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 erase on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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)
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 name)
Are you getting nonplussed? We categorically are!
Drawback Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.
Negative Aspect Number Three: A total deficiency of domain management options
Do we have to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to memorize... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...