Comparing DirectAdmin and cPanel? This is
what says one hosting provider (who manage DirectAdmin dedicated servers for some month/s):
"I am going to be completely frank with you here. DirectAdmin is garbage compared to cPanel, it will always be garbage compared to cPanel and it is a very difficult product to work with. We recommend clients only use DirectAdmin if they absolutely cannot afford cPanel. With that said, DirectAdmin has many features missing compared to cPanel ... I am quite annoyed with how slow DirectAdmin development is and have come to accept it will never be anything close to what cPanel is which is why a good portion of our clients are still on cPanel."
From my
user perspective: DirectAdmin is OK. I can not say i am badly missing any feature, but there are small things that makes your experience a bit worse - you have to spend more time:
- interface (Evolution skin) is usually a bit slower than cPanel (especially File manager of the Evolution skin. + does not allow enough condensed/space saving design)
- need to switch between domains - not all are visible at same time
- No automatic webmail login to default account
- File manager unable to input path where to move/file folder. Have to browse to proper directory
- No AutoSSL (is not automatically enabled Let's encrypt on all new accounts/domains that are without cert.)
- Absence of the good migration tool from cP to DA (check "Some highlights:" paragraph
here)
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