How cPanel Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

Are you becoming baffled? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Weak Point No.3: A complete shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we need to point out the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing platform (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting distributor is availing of, the keen customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to become familiar with... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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