How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We positively are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Downside Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration menus

Do we need to cite the thorough lack of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side No.5: 120+ website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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