I like DirectAdmin better than cPanel. With DirectAdmin I can limit the bandwidth of a second domain without being a reseller. That is useful for something like my image site where I don’t have any restrictions on the sites allowed to use the images. Parked domains work better on DirectAdmin. On cPanel I never figured out how to add a parked domain on an add on domain without making the parked domain an add on domain with the same document root as the domain I wanted to park it on.
DirectAdmin is just simpler to figure out than cPanel was. There are still a little small things that I am a little confused about like the fact that you have to be in a domain’s settings to get to the main account settings. If you want free DirectAdmin hosting you can use Faster Host.