If you don't really need a CP don't use one. All the popular CPs are targets for known and developing "web garbage", avoid them if you can. There are two in the ports tree if you want to try something other than the one you are using.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi...=DTC&stype=all
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi...ll&sektion=all
Initial funding for zpanel came from Novell.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zpanel/