How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number 1: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you becoming confused? We positively are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weakness No.3: A thorough absence of domain name administration options

Do we need to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting corporation is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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