How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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 name)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Negative Side Number Three: A total absence of domain manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting service provider is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

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