How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Aspect No.3: An absolute lack of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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