How does cpanel-based site hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web space 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 very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all web space hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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)
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 growing confused? We undeniably are!
Downside No.2: The same email folder structure
The email folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.
Weakness Number 3: An entire absence of domain manipulation menus
Do we have to point out the absolute absence of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Negative Aspect Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max three)
What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...