How cPanel Hosting Functions

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you growing disorientated? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A complete lack of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:

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