cPanel is the most widely used control panel. cPanel simplifies many website administration tasks such as domain management, database administration, website report, email account management, auto-backup and restoration, file manager, security, and much. Currently, cPanel is the most powerful and best control panel. But it is a web-based control panel, it will consume your server resource. If your server doesn't have a rich resource, I recommend you to choose a lightweight control panel.
Plesk is another most popular web-based control panel. It offers support for Linux as well as Windows. Compared to cPanel, Plesk supports for a much wider variety of Linux distributions. Also, Plesk is built with an amazing feature set, such as file manager, email configuration, FTP, visitor statistics, server and site security. Plesk has a clean and easy to use interface, both novice and professional can handle it.
DirectAdmin is a web-based GUI panel and runs on Linux server like cPanel. It comes with MySQL database management, email configuration, DNS menu, FTP, front page extension, and much.
VPSrobots is a desktop Linux server control panel based on Windows platform. Although it is not quite as powerful as cPanel or Plesk, It comes with own impressive features set, such as website building, MySQL database management, SFTP tool, SSL deployment, website backup, restoration and migration, server security. It isn’t a web-based control panel, so it doesn’t consume your precious server resource. The interface is not nice looking but really easy to use and user friendly. Additionally, VPSrobots can manage multiple website and servers with one license, so it might be the most economical one.
Here is a post which introduce the popular hosting management tools:
2018’s ultimate guide to Web panels.