How cPanel Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next 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 remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)
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 name)

Are you growing nonplussed? We clearly are!

Problem No.2: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Shortcoming Number 3: A complete shortage of domain name management sections

Do we need to mention the thorough shortage of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting company is availing of, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to learn... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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