How does cpanel web hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The webspace hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied most hosting business demands. 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 domains...
Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 unquestionably are!
Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration
The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.
Negative Point Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration options
Do we need to bring up the entire shortage of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Predicament No.4: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Downside Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP departments to grasp... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to learn each of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...