How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Weak Side Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces

Do we need to refer to the entire lack of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

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

How about the need for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting provider is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting firms:

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