jtara - 9:15 pm on Dec 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

To be frank Linux can be controlled using ssh client from Windows.

Well, that will give you a login shell. But the poster wants more than just a login shell - he wants nice GUI administration.

One thing to watch out for are control panels that want your web server configured "just so", and offer little flexibility.

I use DirectAdmin, but have to be careful not to run certain functions in DirectAdmin, because then it will overwrite my modified Apache config files. While they give you some "hooks" to put your own configuration in parts of the config files, it won't allow you to do everything, and there are parts of the config files that they have no hook for.

I beleive that DirectAdmin wants to install your whole LAMP setup for you, in their own unique directory hierarchy. I'm a little vague on this, as it came pre-installed by my host. But some things aren't where you'd expect them to be, and it always seems to be DirectAdmin that is the culprit.