How does cpanel hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web site hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web page hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
Are you growing baffled? We certainly are!
Negative Point Number Two: The same email folder system
The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Negative Side Number 3: A total absence of domain management menus
Do we need to refer to the absolute absence of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Aspect No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the avid customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weakness No.5: 120+ CP sections to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...