How does cpanel hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the present hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web space hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number 1: A stupid domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to remove 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous 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 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 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 name)
Are you getting confused? We absolutely are!
Shortcoming No.2: The same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.
Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough absence of domain administration menus
Do we have to mention the sheer lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side Number 4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...