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**Maximus** · (This post was last modified: 03-25-2012 10:00 AM by Maximus.)

VPS Selection – Control Panel

The most popular control panels are Plesk, WHM/cPanel, and DirectAdmin. All of this software solutions are ``user-friendly``, featuring numerous hosting tools. In my opinion, WHM/cPanel is providing the friendliest interface; however, you will also get used with the competitors` interface fast enough. DirectAdmin is very popular among the majority of experienced webmasters, and because of that you will possibly find an answer to any related question really fast.

Regardless of the chosen control panel, you should know that each of the above software will consume extra resources (mainly extra RAM). Herein, you should select the VPS hardware specs in accordance with your chosen control panel and your website`s hardware needs. BTW, if you are good in server managing, then you could avoid the usage of control panel and edit/modify everything manually.

This is the sixth ``chapter`` of our new VPS selection series. You can check all other threads on this subject from the below links:

VPS Selection – RAM

VPS Selection – CPU

VPS Selection – Managed or Unmanaged

VPS Selection – Windows or Linux

VPS Selection – IP Adresses

Stay tuned for the next discussion on another key VPS resource/feature and its importance for your website`s performance. Do not hesitate to ask, if you have any related questions.