How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on today's hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all web space hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback No.1: A foolish domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove 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 quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 name)
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 bewildered? We doubtlessly are!
Predicament Number Two: The same email folder arrangement
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name administration sections
Do we need to bring up the total lack of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big problem. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ hosting CP areas to memorize... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...