Originally Posted by darksoul

What you forgot to mention is that cpanel (cpanel.net) checks before adding
a domain and won't allow someone to add a domain if its already added to
the server. So its not so easy to hijack a domain.
Automation of things means smart work. Sure you could run the old way
where you have your staff add every e-mail or database or domain or whatever.
But as we all know computers/programs don't do mistakes, humans do.
And lets face it, even the hosts that don't offer a control panel have scripts
that do the most configuration and not configure everything manually.
As for control panels beeing a security issue, mind you, but you should be aware
that to date most vulnerabilities are in the scripts people use and not in
control panels.
Every software is insecure. Windows beeing one of them. Do we stop using it ?
No. There are many companies that use it for hosting their sites or other stuff
and have qualified staff that know how to secure it.
The hacks that happen this days its because people that don't know
what the heck they're doing and not because of the software they're using.
And this is exactly what control panels try to do, make it easy for everyone.
Obviously there are cases where you don't need a control panel, shared
environments its not the case tho.
You beeing in the server security field makes me smile because ,
how long its been ? 3-4 years ago ? I was teaching you how to configure bind.
If it only takes that little to be in the server security field I bow to you.

Sure your article its a good selling one but surely not more than that.
I may not be as good as you at using words but I sure know what the heck I'm talking about.