How does cpanel-based site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the current site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present site hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows 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 take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all site hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely 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 domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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)
Are you getting bewildered? We undeniably are!
Weak Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder system
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.
Predicament No.3: A total shortage of domain management options
Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the need for another login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the ardent users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...