Originally Posted by TheSaint

Agreed but I was talking about medium and larger sites that are invariably on dedicated servers. It takes me about 5 minutes to hand edit apache and domain files to add a domain manually, but not everyone has a Linux admin on call; hence the birth of cp.

I am always planning to put together some PHP tools that would be a cp of sorts to edit the mail, apache, and dns entries for sites - would give me most of the advantages with none of the risk.