How does cpanel hosting function?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web space hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 name)
Are you becoming nonplussed? We clearly are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same mail folder setup
The email folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.
Shortcoming Number Three: A total absence of domain management menus
Do we have to refer to the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Drawback Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the eager users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...