How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting confused? We certainly are!

Predicament Number Two: The same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.

Problem No.3: An absolute lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Downside No.4: Many login places (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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