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    Best Control Panel speedwise?

    Hi there,

    which one would you rate to be the best control panel speedwise out there among commercial and free control panels in the standart configuration on Linux?

    Thx for your input

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    DirectAdmin all the way for speed. It doesnt incorporate too much into your server so you have to do a lot from the shell whcih is mainly copy and paste stuff from their forums which are great by the way for support and addon scripts

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    DA is one of the only control panels that can run Apache 2.2.3 (in a stable fashion). You'll see a VAST increase in performance when compared to a cPanel box running Apache 1.3.x.

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    Another vote for DirectAdmin from me, I prefer it over cPanel in everything!

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    I prefer cPanel and so do many of my customers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by x-termin8or
    I prefer cPanel and so do many of my customers.
    Have you used DirectAdmin? If not, you cannot say cPanel is 'better' or 'prefer' it when you have not yet tried the alternative. For speed purposes, cPanel is no competition to DA.

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    Sorry, no i have not tried DirectAdmin. Do you have a link to a live demo?
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    Quote Originally Posted by layer0
    DA is one of the only control panels that can run Apache 2.2.3 (in a stable fashion). You'll see a VAST increase in performance when compared to a cPanel box running Apache 1.3.x.
    What's so specific about Apache 2.2.3? It's like any apache 2 in therms of configuration right? In that case DA is not the only one (as at least ours would support any version).

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    Speaking for myself, not my employer:

    Based upon personal experience and what others have told me the fastest of the more popular ones (cPanel, Plesk, Ensim, DA, InterWorx) are DA and InterWorx.

    I have zero experience with CP+ Helm, or HSphere.
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    I have used Hsphere Cpanel And Directadmin thumbs up to Directadmin.

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    Again another vote for DirectAdmin and its speed and stability. cPanel though is more popular and has more features though you do end up having more bugs and occasional strangeness.
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    Greetings:

    Over the years, we've found H-Sphere from http://www.psoft.net/promo/ to be extremely stable, reliable, and fast.

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    another vote for directadmin here
    directadmin is alot less bloated than cpanel or plesk

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    yea we just switched from CP to DA... CP is costing too much compared to DA...

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    Currently using cpanel and directadmin, offering clients to switch over to directadmin or stay with cpanel. Will be setting new clients up on directadmin servers from now on as most clients like directadmin's control panel better.

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    I've been using cpanel for ages but i've seen many thread singing the praises of DA guess it's time for me to take a look at see what the buzz is.

    But let me add to the OP's question what does cPanel have that DirectAdmin doesn't that somebody would truly miss?
    How many web hosts does it take to screw in a light bulb?

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    DirectAdmin has to be the fastest and most flexible of control panels. It's much faster than cpanel.
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    I use dedikit.net. It is the best solution I've ever seen

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    Well it would depend on certain things, if your running a Celeron, lowend server, I would use DirectAdmin or Interworx.com. If your running a p4/Xeon/AMD Athlon/Opteron and a min 1GB ram, then they will all respond quickly, jsut decide which one has the features you need.

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    And another vote for directadmin here.

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    Hello,

    The free control panel that runs widely is:

    Directadmin

    the commercial control panel that is widely used is

    Cpanel/WHM
    Plesk
    Ensim.

    I would suggest you to go for cpanel.

    Thank you.

    Regards,

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    Quote Originally Posted by hostechsupport
    Hello,

    The free control panel that runs widely is:

    Directadmin

    the commercial control panel that is widely used is

    Cpanel/WHM
    Plesk
    Ensim.

    I would suggest you to go for cpanel.

    Thank you.

    Regards,
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    If you are going to suggest cPanel over the others, be sure to give a reason or two.
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    Direct admin looks good, I've been a cpanel fan.. well I guess you could say fan.

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