1 - The licence fails, this is due to them using a newer version of the wget binary and DA's licence system has problems with the new wget. I had to install compat5x and use the wget from the freebsd5.1 dir.
Hmm! That happened to my hosting provider this weekend. So much for "DA runs on 6.0 out of the box."
2 - Mysql is 5.x, this is annoying......databases are coming from a box that uses 4.0 so it isnt in my interest to use 5.x.
My hosting provider must have encountered this too since I specified 4x. IMO 4.x should be the default. It will be a good long while before people will want 5.x for a several reasons.
1. 5.x has 45% less throughput than 4.x for indexed read operations, which is 99+% of how MySQL is used today.
2. 5.x has 48% less write throughput.
3. The best case scenario for OLTP is 5.x is 31% slower, but that is only part of the story. It deadlocks under heavy load at around 200 connections under FreeBSD 6.0.
4. 5.x can only beat 4.x using its newly added stored procedures and triggers and MAYBE add-hoc queries when using the InnoDB. You would have to use the stored procedure for about everything.
5. No previous MySQL programs could have been written to leverage these new features, and ports from databases such as DB2, MSSQL, and Oracle to MySQL are going to take a long time, if at all. Did I forget to mention that InnoDB was purchased by Oracle and that you still need a commecial license to use InnoDB?
They may have good reasons for defaulting to 5.x in DirectAdmin installs. I would like to know what those reasons are.