How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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 growing baffled? We clearly are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Predicament Number Three: An entire lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the total shortage of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...