How does cpanel-based hosting function?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web space hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web page hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all web space hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number One: A stupid domain name 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 subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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)
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)
Are you becoming bewildered? We definitely are!
Weakness Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.
Weak Side Number 3: An entire lack of domain name administration tools
Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting CP departments to grasp... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...