How does cpanel hosting function?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on today's web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most site hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number One: A foolish domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 disorientated? We categorically are!
Negative Side Number Two: The very same email folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.
Negative Aspect No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation menus
Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Downside No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 CP sections to get acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...