How cPanel Website Hosting Functions

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you growing nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Downside Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The email folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.

Downside Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to bring up the total shortage of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting service provider is using, the avid users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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