How cPanel Hosting Operates
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most website hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains 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 quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
Are you becoming perplexed? We surely are!
Drawback Number Two: The very same mail folder structure
The email folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.
Negative Sign Number 3: A total lack of domain name management tools
Do we need to mention the absolute absence of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting firm is availing of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 Control Panel areas to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...