How cPanel Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all website hosting market preconditions. 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 domains...

Problem No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since 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 is a folder located 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. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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)

Are you getting puzzled? We positively are!

Problem No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number 3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to point out the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Negative Side No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting vendor is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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