How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single 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 two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

Are you becoming confused? We doubtlessly are!

Problem Number 2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Predicament No.3: A total shortage of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we have to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many login places (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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