How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all web hosting market requirements. 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...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)

Are you growing confused? We categorically are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number Three: A complete absence of domain name administration tools

Do we have to mention the complete lack of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting company is utilizing, the zealous clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: 120+ Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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