Maybe with backups, but I doubt with anything else (also including security and fixing security issues). Which free productions were you thinking of?
First of all i have legacy license bla bla... and after 10 years of DA i am thinking to switch.
HestiaCP seems to be a serious candidate.
I am testing for about one year HestiaCP and there are a few diferences observed by me compared to DA:
Pros hestiacp:
- free with wonderfull forum support
- more than 4 php versions
- full CLI commands (just wonderfull, i dont think there is a commercial product out there better than this one using cli)
- more backup options (rclone, blackblaze)
- it seems faster for me in some situations
- better DNS control compared to DA in some situations
- better control adding domain/subdomain (with or without email/dns support)
- better stats
- frequent updates (i see security fixes probably more often than DA)
- more control for php sessions (you can modify the cleaning script to modify the sessions lifetime for example)
Cons:
- no reseller user
- weird webpanel until you get used to it
- cannot choose mysql/mariadb version (could be possible, default version is fine for me right now)
- no vacantion response, no advanced email filter.
- only apache/nginx (enough for me)
Sure there are many more diferences, i dont know them all.
I dont want to advertise, it's just my opinion and i am using hestiacp for non critical projects and... i was not dissapointed YET.
Salut.