How does cpanel hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k webspace hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all website hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 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 getting puzzled? We surely are!
Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder system
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.
Downside Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management menus
Do we need to refer to the thorough absence of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)
How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP departments to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...