How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you growing perplexed? We definitely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect No.3: A total absence of domain name administration options

Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Downside No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to memorize... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting providers:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...