What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all website hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number 1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing 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 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 disorientated? We undeniably are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The same email folder setup
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.
Negative Aspect No.3: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation sections
Do we need to point out the total absence of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to memorize... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...