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I had been using CPanel for the past 6 years and had seen many face-lifts done on each upgrade. I would definitely say that CPanel had been great all these years though it took quite sometime to load. And loading time really pisses me when I have to wait for more than 2 minutes to view my DNS stuffs!

And you’ve guessed it! I Googled to look for a better Platform! But I was let down for I did not find any solid answers. Directadmin (DA) seemed to be a hot favourite to many which kinda surprised me as I always thought that CPanel’s only competitor is Plesk.

Well, I didn’t want to spend so much money on a panel so I decided to look for an Open Source Platform. Then I found out about LxAdmin. From the creators of HyperVM.

Well enough said. I tried the demo for DirectAdmin and just like the reviews, it looks good and does what it is suppose to do. However, i feel that it wasn’t as feature rich as CPanel.

So since LxLabs boasted many wonderful features on LxAdmin and that it saves the most memory compared with other panels, I decided to give it a shot. Honestly, I feel that it needs a major face lift. It doesn’t look good at all. The tabs reminds me of my school project that I did in the year 1999! But it serves its purpose.

LxAdmin has all the features that I need and the best part is it comes with a built in “One Click Install” feature called ‘InstallApp’. For CPanel users, you would be familiar with the term Fantastico. But what I like most about LxAdmin is that, now I don’t need to mess my config files anymore. Everything can be done via the panel. Here is a glimpse of what you will see in LxAdmin.

There are many other features that you can’t see from this image, but it shows you the InstallApp and a couple of the config options. Rewrite rule can be added for the domain easily too!!!

Convenience is there. I took quite a while to get familiar with LxAdmin but hey it’s not their fault that I was using CPanel for years. I like LxAdmin though it still is not perfected. Since it is free and the support forum seems to be quite efficient, I believe that LxAdmin may have a shot on taking over CPanel sometime in the near future.