How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web space hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all web site hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 perplexed? We undeniably are!
Negative Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure
The mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.
Negative Sign Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain management tools
Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting company. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...