How cPanel Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most web hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Observe for yourself how good 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)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 name)

Are you growing nonplussed? We definitely are!

Problem Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain management sections

Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Sign No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting provider is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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