How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system is:

Are you growing confused? We surely are!

Problem No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.

Negative Point Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to bring up the thorough absence of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Downside No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting firm is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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