How cPanel Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all website hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you getting confused? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Downside Number 3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to mention the total lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting company is using, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...