How does cpanel hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present-day site hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most webspace hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number One: A laughable domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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)
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 disorientated? We doubtlessly are!
Shortcoming No.2: The same mail folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.
Problem No.3: A sheer absence of domain management tools
Do we have to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the eager users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...