I prefer directadmin over cpanel..heck I prefer anything over Cpanel's bloated crappy panel. It's highly overrated. It's simply got the biggest market share and consumers are idiots. Most people who want cpanel are told to get cpanel or have experience with it and are uncomfortable with anything else. It's terrible though...it's slow, doesn't update well, and requires more resources than should be allowed. Also it's really overstated for it's features. 99% of the people using it use less than 10% of it's functions. It's also incredibly overpriced. You can get a lifetime license of DirectAdmin for a few hundred.