How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: 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 offerings on the whole website hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming perplexed? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain administration options

Do we need to cite the utter absence of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to learn... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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