How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled most web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase entirely 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Downside Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming No.3: An entire shortage of domain name administration sections

Do we need to cite the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting firm is making use of, the keen customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting suppliers:

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