Description of cPanel Website Hosting
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, 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 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 confused? We clearly are!
Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.
Negative Sign Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain management GUIs
Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Problem No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)
How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...