How does cpanel hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The web page hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.
The hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely 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 remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 growing bewildered? We undeniably are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure
The mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too irretrievably.
Drawback Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain name management menus
Do we have to refer to the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP sections to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...