How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

Are you getting bewildered? We categorically are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.

Inconvenience Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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