How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A moronic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming bewildered? We positively are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.

Weakness Number 3: A complete absence of domain management sections

Do we need to refer to the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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