How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete 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 remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure is:

Are you growing confused? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number 2: The same mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain management sections

Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting distributor is using, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to learn... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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