Which is the best Control Panel?

[Danny Lawson]

Very true Carl. Either you have to get the best of the control panel or get the one that can make your life easy later on. It all depends on your budget and availability of control panels with any of the Web Hosting Providers.

[bill mates]

But most of the people prefer Plesk or Cpanel because it is user friendly and we can easily migrate our hosting accounts with the help of these control panels

[Rodricks]

If you have enough technical knowledge and you are comfortable working in shell then Direct Admin is also a good control panel with all the features well-organized. And as compared to WHM/cpanel, Direct Admin is very cost effective.

[php_rules]

Personally I like cpanel, but by far the best way to control your hosting is form a bash prompt =) all you need is bash and mc, and if you are lucky you get vim, phpmyadmin is ok if you like that sort of thing, but again, the command line is far better =)

[centelo]

I vote for 1 as well as I just explained in my first post here (guess I was anxious and missed this one). I have tried the one that I think Host Gator has, but not being able to move from there to my current host easy (with more than 5 sub domains) was a huge pain and I really never want to do that over again.

[Shane Phillips]

Well, there is nothing better than quality hosting support.

[HappyNerd]

I use cPanel because of how easy it is to use and navigate. I like that the company provides you with the option to buy it with or without WebHost Manager.

[RichardM]

Originally Posted by Shane Phillips

Well, there is nothing better than quality hosting support.

You got that right, Shane. This is a top-notch outfit.

-Richard

[Shane Phillips]

Originally Posted by RichardM

You got that right, Shane. This is a top-notch outfit.

-Richard

Thanks Richard

Regards,

Shane

[bluetrance05]

Originally Posted by carl

cPanel provides you with following features:

1. Ease of use / administer
2. Lighter control panel
3. features
4. Fantastico softwares integrated (free by majority of the hosts)

Those are also the same reasons why I like cPanel better than Plesk. It has nice key features like free installation, per server you have the ability to create unlimited domains, the server administration interface is complete, domain owner interface is fully featured, server administrator-reseller-domain owner interface is separated, Virus scanner is also free, game servers are free as well and they have a new transfer assistance support.

[Sentinel]

I would have to vote for cpanel - It was the first that I came across, and was very easy to figure out what everything does, I still like messing around with everything from a command line though!

[carl owen]

That's great. Mostly, cPanel is more preferred with Linux as it is easier and the compatibility level of cPanel with Linux is just amazing.

[Amelia]

cPanel has a huge following..

[carl owen]

Certainly. It is popular and it is preferred as it is easier to use and it has many features which makes different and better from other control panels. The stability is also an important factor which makes cPanel better and more preferred in comparison to other control panels.

[kdorsey]

Originally Posted by Amelia

cPanel has a huge following..

Yea, they do and I think I will have a harder time swithching to something else. I'm just very used to it.

[Martin]

Definitely!

It is very hard to switch to any other control panel. If you are used to cPanel, you cannot find any other control panel as easy to use as it. The way it has been designed and regular upgrades have made it the most popular control panel.