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 website hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: An idiotic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you getting bewildered? We positively are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Sign Number Three: A complete absence of domain manipulation options

Do we need to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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