What Does cPanel Hosting Represent?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 name)
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)
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 undoubtedly are!
Predicament Number 2: The very same email folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.
Negative Sign Number 3: A total absence of domain manipulation user interfaces
Do we need to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...