$50 a month for cPanel? WOW! Talk about taking it in the rear without lube.. Most hosts charge $25 a month for cPanel on a dedicated server, the most I've seen it for until now is $35 a month. If the server is fully managed without cPanel I would say you don't need it. You can just have your host do everything for you. But if you like to do things yourself and not have to wait on your host to do it, then I would say go ahead and get cPanel or DirectAdmin. Both will make doing tasks a lot easier for you esp. if you aren't familiar with how to do them without a control panel.
