So my buddy Eli told me about his web host, which I’m actually seeing a lot of traffic on various lists about so thought I should mention. His quote:
http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting-panel.html
Check out the demo panel, its pretty nifty. Still no better than running webmin/cpanel, but not nearly as obtuse because it allows Dreamhost to split roles onto several servers under one panel. Ie, Mail goes on one server, Web on another, MySQL onto another shared server, all under one set of admin pages.
And although you cant mess with the shared host config settings, you are able to SSH in to your own account and run amok with your own files.
Still, I like using CafeEdge, because it’s got my last name in the name and my dad is really quick to turn around requests for me. 😉