How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The web hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web space hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign Number One: A foolish domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe 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 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming perplexed? We surely are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too gravely.
Weakness Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain management interfaces
Do we have to cite the thorough absence of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Negative Point No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. At times, based on the billing tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel menus to learn... fast
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...