Couldn't tell you.
I've never gone with a free panel.
I think it's comparing apples and oranges if you want to compare paid control panels with free ones.
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but i ever heard someone said xPanel and LayeredPanel are better compare to cPanel in term of free hosting. Do you agree?
I think these mentioned platforms are focusing on free hosting market only. I haven't reallly heard of these panels openly promoting or competing with the likes of CPanel.
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I'm a cPanel person. xPanel I dislike, never heard of LayeredPanel, Ensim is horrific. Plesk is ok but I rarely tend to use it. DirectAdmin is also a good control panel as well.
For our company site we use cpanel. For my personal server I have worked with plesk. It's more up to date and is much easier and fluid to manage. For a webhosting company you will have to weigh what customers have used before or have heard of. In that case cpanel might bring you the greatest amount of customers.
I have to go with Cpanel myself. It is the only control panel that I have tested 100% throughout. Others may be nice but I have not found a reason to look elsewhere. So Cpanel it is for a long time to come.
I would like to check out H-Sphere at some point. That one looks really nice.
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