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cPanel is the more commonly used control panel. DirectAdmin many years ago was competetive, but it has fallen short since.
Plesk seems to be the closest competitor to cPanel at the moment
It is important to note that wordpress without optimization is a very CPU & RAM hungry CMS, so good optimization is required.
A html serving site may serve thousands of visitors using less than CPU than a unoptimized Wordpress site with a few visitors