In DA \ EVO under admin account, I have never built a domain under the Admin User. I added the account as its own user on the server.
That's a choice one can make. So you create a hostname like server.somedomain.com and then you create the domain somedomain.com as a simple user? Sorry but I don't see any benefit to that, no reason to do that separately. But it's a choice.
I'm using enhanced level and we -always- use the hostname's domain for the user level on admin. Most easy way to create nameservers and things I mentioned amongst others.
But that's everybody's choice ofcourse.
I asked should I build my main site here. I think it stems from the idea Admin is a reseller and an "Administrative user" in the design of the system. Instead of it just being an "Administrative user" for the system.
That probably is indeed the design of the system. However, the question if you shuold build your main site there can not be answered with just yes or no because that's a choice.
We normally have 2 domains. 1 is the admin domain, which so under user level also has the same domain name as the hostname is from.
The 2nd domain is made as secondary admin and there the main domain is running on and resellers are created from.
Not necessary, but it makes live easier when having to transfer to other servers. On an older server the admin has his main domain under the main admin account.
Since you also should obey RFC's you should have things like a postmaster and abuse email account for the hostname's domain. So that domain has to be used anyway. Either used as admin, reseller, other admin or just user. The only benefit to use it as user is maybe a bit more safety if the password gets hacked.
Could also be I'm missing something. Anyway, it's not a must, but it makes live easyer when the hostnames domain is made, so if you don't plan to run a website on it, why not just use it under admins user level?
CPanel is build a bit different. I don't remember how Plesk has done that.
And no, in Enhanced skin we do not get a message as admin that we need to create an admin domain. At least not until a few weeks ago.
By the way... I stepped back on the reseller account from Evo to Enhanced because I find enhanced easier and quicker and better overview. It's old facient but quick.
You made this point before and I replied
here.
Not really. You did not really answer my question about why that would be an issue. So it's different in DA, so you now have an option to switch to user level which you did not have or used before, I didn't understand your problem with that.
As I read it now it's not that it's different from what you're used to but you don't like it because you don't -want- it to work that way. That's something else and that is the answer to my question than.
Yes, in cPanel you have a very clear separation between server administrator (WHM) and user (cPanel).
Which is not a big difference. Same here on DA. A user also logs in to the same port as the admin, but the permissions are totally different.
We've worked with that admin domain thing for many years and also see the benefits of it. So imho maybe they can remove the obligation to create such domain, but please do not remove the option to have one there on user level if wanted.
There's no logical reason why we need a domain to create a cron job and the devs have acknowledged this.
Yes they did, and then I'm very curious again as to why an admin should need a cronjob if he hasn't a domain anyway, seems not logical to me? I don't want to start a discussion about this, I only intent to get one or two examples to kill my curiosity and maybe learn something new.
And also why cron and for example not ftp?
Just to be clear, I'm not saying you should not do things the way you do or have idea's to change things. I'm just very curious as to why the current setup is not working for somebody, what people have against an admin domain from the hostname, even if they don't host the website on it. It's just getting used to as I had to get used to everything working different in Plesk and cP. I'm looking for disadvantage arguments not for "don't like, not used to" arguments, so that's my curiosity.
However, all improvement is good ofcourse, no problem there.