How cPanel Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A stupid domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Downside Number 2: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Drawback Number 3: An entire lack of domain name administration options

Do we have to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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