How does cpanel hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on today's web space hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day site hosting market is... Period.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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)
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 growing baffled? We absolutely are!
Negative Aspect Number 2: The same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Shortcoming Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name management interfaces
Do we have to mention the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Negative Side No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...