How does cpanel hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web space hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all web page hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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 marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 getting disorientated? We absolutely are!
Negative Side No.2: The very same email folder setup
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.
Problem Number Three: An utter absence of domain name management GUIs
Do we need to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Weak Point Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 CP sections to get to know... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...