How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming confused? We certainly are!
Negative Point No.2: The same mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.
Problem Number Three: A thorough lack of domain administration menus
Do we have to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the eager customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: 120+ CP menus to learn... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...