How does cpanel-based hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current web page hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web page hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current web page hosting market is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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. Determine for yourself how marvelous 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 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 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)
Are you getting baffled? We undeniably are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.
Weakness Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)
What about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing platform (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...