How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web space hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web space hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered all site hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 name)
Are you becoming bewildered? We undeniably are!
Weak Point No.2: The same mail folder structure
The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.
Disadvantage No.3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation tools
Do we have to bring up the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Downside No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...