How does cpanel-based hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present web hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current site hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most web space hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 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 becoming puzzled? We clearly are!
Disadvantage Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.
Inconvenience No.3: A complete lack of domain administration tools
Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Weak Side No.4: Many login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get to know... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...