How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain)

Are you growing disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Shortcoming Number Three: An absolute lack of domain management sections

Do we need to refer to the total shortage of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Downside Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the eager customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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