cpanel still sucks
I'm long been unimpressed by the squishy webhosting product called cpanel. I once had to use the crap for a while when my old web host moved to it from another webhosting "control panel" system. I even had it installed on a development server at one time, to get a closer look at it. I was NOT impressed. Since then I've tried to stay as far away from it as possible.
Therefore it's fun to point and laugh from a distance about crap like this:
http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/09/23/2218254.shtml
If I may quote an AC, this comment is in line with what I've seen, and gives an idea of why I dislike and distrust cpanel:
Unfortunately cPanel consists of several million lines of uncommented perl code. Integral parts of almost every operation go through a large closed-source binary generated from perl code which makes it impossible to audit.
You may be also interested in knowing that cPanel was started by someone when they were around 12 years old, and much of that code still is still in use. None of the cPanel developers have had any formal programming teaching and learn from each others bad habbits. This is why the cPanel code is in such bad shape. Just look at the /scripts/ directory for proof.
