How cPanel Hosting Functions

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

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

Negative Point No.1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 getting perplexed? We absolutely are!

Weakness No.2: The very same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Side Number Three: An entire absence of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to cite the entire absence of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Predicament No.4: Many login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoicing platform (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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