How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

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

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Problem No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the zealous customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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