Originally Posted by [Dan]

Gotta agree with JFPDude here, control panels are crap, open many security holes on your server and slow it down considerably. They compile all kind of crappy modules in apache and put a bunch of weird rewriterules (needed by the panel in special cases only) that do nothing but eat memory and slow down the processing of requests.

Sounds like more and more people want a windows-like server, that is easy to manage at the expense of reliability, security and performance. Microsoft provides such products, maybe you'd be happier with them...