How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200k "web site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current site hosting market is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most website hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number 1: A laughable domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic 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 name)
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 confused? We categorically are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder configuration
The mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.
Shortcoming No.3: A complete deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we need to bring up the absolute lack of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to become familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...