But it's not like WHM/Cpanel which is really very comprehensive and well thought out. I would host with a DirectAdmin site, as long as it was run by someone competent. One really needs to have the documentation in one screen, forum searches in another, and a couple of terminal windows open. I'm still having bad gateway errors on any php files. The defaults of the system were not especially functional. Originally I couldn't really get Apache to work, either. I've been having some issues getting anything to run in php. It's not clear but you can't just run it all as admin, you have to create a reseller and an end user. The server is not down during that time, though.
It can take 20 minutes to install and switch systems. It's kinda nasty that you do it by changing various options and rebuilding in the command line. It's great that you can switch between Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed, and OpenLitespeed. Things like changing the php version are handled by going into a configuration file, changing a value, then entering various build commands, then waiting forever. However, it's rather difficult to use and has made me spend far too much time in Terminal. It is a for-profit system and looks very finished.
Webmin/Virtualmin/Usermin shows the most promise, it's been around forever, it's what I started on, but it still seems almost unfinished it makes some things better, but it's no CPanel.ĭirectAdmin was the most promising. So I tried some others.ĬyberPower seemed almost unfinished. I wanted to leave CPanel for something less costly and faster.