How would you rate these control panels?

[SenseiSteve]

Simply curious how you would rank these control panels; specifically why while addressing the pro's and con's.

cPanel
Plesk
DirectAdmin
Vesta
Webmin
Virtualmin
Other worth mentioning

 

[LorisZ]

I would Rank as below, on the basis of backup facility, Email Management, managing multiple domains, Apache Handlers, mime type and etc..
1 cPanel
2 DirectAdmin
3 Plesk
4 Vesta
5 Virtualmin
6 Webmin
and others

 

[Leasedlayer.com]

I would rank as follows by considering some features of all cpanels namely- email management, pre-installed CGI Scripts, FTP Management, Site Management, Database control, Network tools and still many more..
1. Cpanel
2. Plesk
3. Directadmin
4. Vesta
5. VirtualMin
6. Webmin
7. zpanel
& others

 

[cheapdedicated]

Based on Stability, support, backup facility, Domain and Email Management, Apache Handlers, etc etc..
1 cPanel
2 Plesk
3 DirectAdmin
4 Vesta
5 Virtualmin
6 Webmin

 

[RH-Calvin]

I would rank them as:

1 cPanel
2 Plesk
3 DirectAdmin
4 Vesta
5 Virtualmin
6 Webmin

 

[ScopeHosts]

I would rank as
1. cPanel
2. Directadmin
3. Plesk
4. Vesta
5. Webmin
6. Virtualmin

 

[cheapdedicated]

For guys who want to host domains while at the same time hosting audio stream on the same server without paying there is zPanel it does the job even though its not the best out there

 

[SenseiSteve]

For guys who want to host domains while at the same time hosting audio stream on the same server without paying there is zPanel it does the job even though its not the best out there

zPanel hasn't been updated in over 1 1/2 years, has it? Or am I thinking of some other panel?

 

[cheapdedicated]

zPanel hasn't been updated in over 1 1/2 years, has it? Or am I thinking of some other panel?

Well I have not used it in a while I dont know about their updates

 

[coloAZ]

I'm surprised WebsitePanel wasn't mentioned here. For Windows - I would recommend it.

For Unix/Linux - I would only recommend cPanel. Perhaps Plesk will improve now that Ingram is at the helm. We will see...

Just my two cents.

 

[Adam Greer]

cPanel
DirectAdmin
Plesk
and others ;-)

 

[cheapdedicated]

By The way there is also Centos-webpanel. It does both webhosting ans shoutcast streaming. I have not tasted it extensively for web hosting BUT its shoutcast works perfectly and if you dont want to pay for centova it will offer a fair alternative

 

[diggdigital]

Top 5

1 cPanel
2 Plesk
3 DirectAdmin
4 Vesta
5 Virtualmin

 

[svijayan]

I would rank as

cPanel
Plesk
DirectAdmin
Vesta
Webmin
Virtualmin

 

[PureVoltage]

I would suggest the following order.

1 cPanel
2 Plesk
3 DirectAdmin
4 Vesta
5 Virtualmin

However with Virtualmin I'd be careful as with everything make sure you have it locked down and keep up with updates. We had a clients webmin install give someone root access which is never fun!

 

[cheapdedicated]

We had a clients webmin install give someone root access which is never fun!

Hehehe Now if you were using it for commercial purposes and it dished out root access to clients you would be really messed up.

 

[hmb-patrick]

I would rank as follows due to the features provided.

1. cPanel
2. Plesk
3. DirectAdmin
4. Webmin
5. Virtualmin
6. Vesta

 

[cheapdedicated]

But really should a commercial host consider these open source control panels unless they have done in house customization?

 

[Andrius]

1. cPanel
2. Directadmin
3. Plesk

..............
There no other panels...

 

[cheapdedicated]

1. cPanel
2. Directadmin
3. Plesk

..............
There no other panels...

Can I take it that you rate Directadmin ahead of Plesk?