How cPanel Web Hosting Functions

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system is:

Are you becoming puzzled? We categorically are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Negative Side No.3: An absolute shortage of domain administration options

Do we need to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... swiftly

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

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

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