As I understand it, cPanel seems to be favorite, but it requires more resources. Direct Admin is more lightweight and has a lot of features that people need, but it's not as full featured as cPanel. How about LxAdmin/Kloxo? How about some others? What are your favorite lightweight control panels? Can you order some of the popular options by their resource usage?

Feel free to add any of the pro/cons. But, mainly, I'd like to know which CPs use the least resources and which use the most. Have at it experts :)

Thanks.

DirectAdmin can do everything cpanel can do and usually much simpler. We have just converted many of our clients from being long-time cpanel users to directadmin and the comments have been favorable and many have said they NOW PREFER DA over cPanel.

Those who say it doesn't have the same feature set, haven't used it regularly. I've have challenged those who say that DA is lacking a function that cpanel has to specify which one and no one has been able to state a specific feature in cpanel that da doesn't also have. It may be implemented differently, but it's there.

I've have challenged those who say that DA is lacking a function that cpanel has to specify which one and no one has been able to state a specific feature in cpanel that da doesn't also have.

Challenge accepted! -- Unlike cPanel, DirectAdmin doesn't have any headaches :)

Don't get me wrong, cPanel is a great control panel, but it simply takes over the server that it is installed on. If something breaks, you generally cannot just use general knowledge of certain services to fix it because cPanel completely changes the way these services run and interact with each other.

DirectAdmin comes off as a much cleaner and better implemented system which is just there. If I want to use a custom configuration or anything, I don't have to worry about it being cPanel compattible.

DirectAdmin just works and works well. I've been using it for ages on my personal server and will never turn back ;)

Daniel, I'm on YOUR side! I was challenging those on cPanel who say you can't do this and/or that on DA. I KNOW I can do everything on DA and my clients are also finding out! :)

And I'm learning new tricks each and every day. And I DO like the fact that DA sits on top of the operating system and other installs instead of intertwining itself amongst all the code.

It kind of basically reminds me of the difference between a true mac install and a windows install. On a windows install, their are pieces of an app strewn all over the place and I'm not just talking preferences. With a mac app, just drop it into the apps folder and presto, it's done. Want to get rid of it, move it to the trash. Now there are preferences that are placed in the library, but trying to find pieces of the app all over your system you won't have to do with a true mac app.

Ok, let me rephrase. I'm not saying that Direct Admin has less features than cPanel. That just seems to be the mantra I've heard repeated. I've only ever used Direct Admin and I'm fine with it.

But, how would you rate the popular choices of CPs according to resource usage? That's my actual question. :)

Scott,

I could be wrong here but I think Daniel was being sarcastic, he knows you are on the same side of this coin. I for one have yet to use DA but I think I'll give it a twirl.

If that's true, then dumb me. I do know Daniel, but I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic. Perhaps too tired! :)

Of the the 3 main ones for Linux (not sure about Windows) DirectAdmin uses the least amount of resources. LXAdmin and Webmin use even less, they I don't think they're ready for the big time just yet. Next, I'm not sure if Plesk or cPanel use more resources. I've never used Plesk before, but I've heard it's pretty slow.

Are we referring to shared, reseller, or semi-dedicated hosting?

Are we referring to shared, reseller, or semi-dedicated hosting?

In my case 1 forum at the moment on a VPS...maybe more sites in the future, but nothing planned. But, I'm just curious in general of how the resource usage is of different control panels...hosting aside.