How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 name)
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 becoming perplexed? We absolutely are!

Problem No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weak Point Number 3: A complete lack of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

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