How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We definitely are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Weak Point Number Three: An entire absence of domain administration menus

Do we have to refer to the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the ardent users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:

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