What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 hosting server, since 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 becoming confused? We doubtlessly are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure
The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.
Drawback Number 3: An entire shortage of domain manipulation menus
Do we have to bring up the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Negative Side Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is using, the eager customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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