How does cpanel web hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The web page hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's hosting market is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web space hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful 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 domains are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 growing disorientated? We certainly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.
Negative Aspect Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain management options
Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Problem Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting provider. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...