How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current website hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered all website hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, 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 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good 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 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 growing disorientated? We clearly are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Predicament Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Problem Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is availing of, the avid customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP sections to grasp... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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