How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k site hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number One: A laughable domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 getting baffled? We positively are!
Weak Side No.2: The same email folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Weak Side Number Three: A total lack of domain name manipulation tools
Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to get to know... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...