How does cpanel hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current site hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all webspace hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name 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 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 becoming nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!
Negative Point No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.
Inconvenience Number 3: A sheer lack of domain manipulation options
Do we have to bring up the sheer absence of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)
How about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to grasp... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...