How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 becoming bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Negative Point No.3: A total absence of domain management interfaces

Do we need to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great problem. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to learn... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...