How cPanel Hosting Functions

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide 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 virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 getting puzzled? We surely are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same e-mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Shortcoming Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain administration user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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