How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on today's web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 getting perplexed? We undeniably are!
Weak Side Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.
Drawback Number 3: A complete absence of domain management sections
Do we have to cite the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Sign No.4: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoicing system (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...