How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all web site hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point No.1: A ludicrous domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 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 growing disorientated? We absolutely are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.
Disadvantage Number 3: An entire lack of domain administration tools
Do we need to refer to the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness No.4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the earnest users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 web space hosting CP departments to become familiar with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...