How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 name)
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)
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 growing disorientated? We undeniably are!
Inconvenience Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup
The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.
Weak Side Number Three: A thorough absence of domain administration GUIs
Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Point Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the invoicing platform (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: 120+ CP areas to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...