Is cpanel neccesary for a dedicated server that will host only 1 website.(or maybe another 4-5 domains) What I mean by 1 website means that it will not be used for purposes of webhosting(shared or vps), but just to host a single website and a few microsites of the same company.
I am asking this because I have designed a website(and a few microsites) and the client already has a hosting provider.
When asked for the requirments I said just give us whm/cpanel access as that is what I am used operating on(I have vps and a reseller hosting account where I host my clients sites)
But these people were not ready to give cpanel and when the client forced them they gave PIMS control form their dedicated server provider.
https://easyspeedy.com/controlcenter/docs/welcome.jsf
That is the link as you can see this is not whm/cpanel
I am suprised that they have given this link(maybe pressure form clients)
Forget about the fact that this hosting provider has not heard of cpanel maybe he thought I was just being cool and calling a control panel as Cpanel. :-P
They have given me SCP access and phmyadmin which is more than enough for me to upload files.
but then I really love uploading files(zipped) via the file manager in the x3 Cpanel template and editing (minor things) files via the same.
Am am quite used to that.
Now they have installed xampp for linux on this server
Is there any advantages apart from my comfort, that i can ask them to install cpanel.
As I told you that site is only for hosting a single company's website(s).
Please help
thank you.

cPanel is of course not needed; it might however ease the configuration of the server, and keeps the server more up to date as a xampp installation.
Besides this it is often cheaper to find server management for a control-panel as for a standard configured LAMP server.

I agree. It depends on what type of support you can expect without cPanel and how confident you feel without any control panel.

Hi,
For one domain only, I agree, there is no need. But if you don't have experience setting up the services, you might need to hire a system admin or server management team to setup it for you. Good Luck.
Regards,
Bobby

It really depends, even if it's for one domain. If the person that manages the site wants to manage DNS, e-mails, databases, maillists via web interface, then it surely can be helpful to install a control-panel like cPanel. Although in such case, I'd suggest him/her to find a smaller one.
However, in the specific case, I'd suggest you to avoid forcing (even kindly) the client to install a control-panel. It would be better for your own good to get used to upload files via FTP and backup/restore databases through phpmyadmin (if not directly through mysql). Otherwise your expectation from your clients to have cPanel, may be considered as a weakness in long-term ;)

You might as well go for cPanel if you can afford it, coz its help is easy to find because of the uniform setup. Manual setup will be difficult to manage, and if you search for any help, people will ask tonnes of questions regarding the setup before giving you a viable answer.

As such you dont need a control panel to host site.
Its just that any control panel (including cPanel) will help you in managing the server a bit better and it can keep your server upto date. Like some control panel have the ability to check if a critical service is down and then attempt to restart it and so on...

Go for cPanel if you really need it as it makes everything a lot easier but if you know Linux very well, then there is no need for it.

Pretty much what has been said. If you are not really familiar with linux and this is not a project that is time constrained, give yourself a month to get familiarized with Linux on a local home server.
For one site the apache part itself will be very easy to do. email will be the hardest, but if you really don't plan to have multiple domains then you can make it easier by not going the virtual mailbox route. You probably won't need to setup DNS either for one site, you can just use a DNS provider.

Hi everyone,
The temperature in the UK is -3 degrees and seems to be getting colder by the minute, so its nice to be chatting in a warm crowd!
If you really only want to host one domain, you can do this very simply without a control panel. I did it on Fedora so it must be easy.
Just a thought, I previously tried a few control panels without a license, just to see if I was clever enough to install them. What I found is that one or two of them default to having a single functional domain whilst unlicensed.
Hope this helps in some way.
Take care
Emma

If you are happy managing the server yourself then running without a control panel will be fine. If you are not then you are better off getting a control panel as you will be paying someone else to manage the server and overall it works out about the same for the control panel and management as no control panel and management (as sys admins charge more if there is no control panel).

Thanks a lot for your replies.
@psyxakias I think what you say it right I was put in that situation, even thought hosting is not my core competencies, we were made to look "weak" by the hosting company when we asked for cpanel.
But like Juanzo said, it all about confidence, and it is really hard to find good system admin and pay them a monthly salary when you are not really making money off hosting. So with a cpanel I think any of your junior level programmers can handle any server issues. That is how I put it.
I have always gone the managed server way for clients. As the the risk is less.
@ emma that is good tip thank you.
others replies also are valuable, thanks a lot anyways we will be uploading via scp and phpmyadmin.
As the server management headache is not ours. So really dont need cpanel.
Thanks again everyone for your replies and I wish you a prosperous and Happy new Year. :-)

Quan you are welcome!