How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k webspace hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to delete completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 bewildered? We positively are!
Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure
The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.
Weak Side No.3: A total lack of domain manipulation menus
Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Downside No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web space hosting CP sections to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...