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Love the documentation. We recently became a directadmin partner and get access to their internal pricing. I installed the DA control panel for a client the other day and ran into some issues. Checked through their documentation and found the solution, Easy as. DirectAdmin is also reasonably lightweight as well as feature rich. :)
 
Something I also wanted to check and use just for experience. What issues did you run into on the install?
 
Allan said:
Something I also wanted to check and use just for experience. What issues did you run into on the install?
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Incorrect ethernet_dev set in the /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf file. <-- Should've followed the install guide more carefully.

:)
 
Theres quite a few times I've destroyed a server because I didn't follow the installation correctly. Got bored of reading them and then just reinstalled the OS and then started again!

I thought I would of learnt by now but no!
 
I like DirectAdmin but I prefer cpanel as a domain control panel.

DirectAdmin seems a bit behind the times on many things; requiring you to do a lot of things manually for the initial setup. One example is a built in jailed ssh/sftp login for domain owners. It has been "discontinued" in DirectAdmin as far as I can tell, re: http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=90
 
DirectAdmin is awesome. Granted it's jail/shell is tricky, but no-one uses that now that CloudLinux CageFS is available.
DirectAdmin is very flexible in the way it can be made to do things differently.
For instance, our NGINX -> Varnish -> LiteSpeed hosting stack was quite easy to implement without 3rd party plugins (or Licenses to pay).

(DirectAdmin now supports NGINX as a proxy for Apache/LiteSpeed out of the box, and now supports Comodo WAF either on the perimeter NGINX or at the Apache/LiteSpeed end, out of the box).

Their spam fighting has recently improved as well.
 
DA is good for clients new to the hosting industry, but I'd still prefer how cPanel handles virtual host management, and their interface isn't ugly. If I'm new to something I'd be happy to see some icons here and there, I don't want to be bothered reading text with no icons to distinguish which is which.

Sidenote: My first post, yay. :D
 
As with CPanel, there are a number of great skins for DirectAdmin. We use Darwin Skin (http://www.custombuild.eu/darwin/) at just 24 Euros for a lifetime license it's a great bargain.
Written by the guy who does all the custombuild functionality, it comes with automatic updates to work with any new features.
 
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