How does cpanel hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's web page hosting market is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most web page hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 getting perplexed? We definitely are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Drawback Number 3: A complete absence of domain name management interfaces
Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Negative Side Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: 120+ hosting CP menus to grasp... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...