cPanel Web Hosting Explanation
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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)
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 surely are!
Weakness No.2: The very same email folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.
Drawback Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation sections
Do we need to bring up the total absence of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Weak Point Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Downside Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to grasp... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...