What Does cPanel Hosting Signify?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage Number 1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove completely 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 remove on the 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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 getting bewildered? We clearly are!
Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.
Downside Number 3: An absolute lack of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: 120+ CP sections to become familiar with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...