How does cpanel hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present web space hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most website hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming baffled? We unquestionably are!
Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration
The email folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.
Predicament Number 3: A total absence of domain administration sections
Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Negative Aspect Number Four: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Downside No.5: 120+ CP departments to become acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...