Well in all honesty, I don't really like cpanel. It's a bloated control panel. Just to install/run the base copy of cpanel it's 256 mb ram. You can get all the same features with all the same point and click versatility in direct admin with half the resource usage. Then when fantastico is mentioned it's the same thing as installatron pretty much. A "good tech" can trim down the services on cpanel to work in a 128 mb environment but that does not happen often, especially when a "good tech" can trim down DirectAdmin to work in a 64 MB environment and still maintain all the key features, this application is commonly used in a VPS if some of you are wondering why anyone would want to use cPanel or DA under such a restricted environments such as 64 MB ram or 128 MB ram.

We constantly have customers thinking we have a custom built control panel when it's just a skinned/modded version of DirectAdmin, and modern bill. I am actually pretty biased when it comes to control panels, used most of them and found one that worked better than the others.


Here are a list of the control panels, there are more out there but this is the most common list.

Hosting Panels
cPanel
DirectAdmin
Plesk
H-Sphere
Hosting Controller
Helm
Webmin - Free
ISPconfig -Free

VPS Control Panels
VirtualMin - I am not familiar with this. I am under the impression it is also handles the virtualization. If I am wrong someone correct me please.
Vizzo- New OpenVZ control panel currently in Beta.