How does cpanel hosting function?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "web hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all webspace hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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 name)
Are you getting perplexed? We doubtlessly are!
Shortcoming No.2: The same e-mail folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.
Drawback Number Three: A total deficiency of domain manipulation sections
Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Problem Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting company. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the keen users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP menus to learn... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...