How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire site hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 doubtlessly are!
Downside Number 2: The very same email folder structure
The email folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too seriously.
Shortcoming Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain manipulation menus
Do we need to cite the total shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the billing system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the zealous users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to pick up... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...