Directadmin - Falling behind?

I would....

Gerry....I would work on changing all your new plesk clients over to DA, get ready and one night...convert all, be ready with support.... but I would bet most would love it the same as you do!
As for outpernet.... over the past few years I wanted to buy your skin, every time I have attempted, your site has issues, try adding capri to your cart...
I can say that DA has never let an issue go un checked for longer than the fix took.
Most of my users and most of the clients I surveyed lean towards simplicity, click here to do this, click here to do that... and they expect what they expect to happen to actually happen
 
Most of my clients wouldn't have a clue ;)

That's not meant to sound fecetious, but they rely on our support for their setup. They even admit to it.

We don't mind, as this is what makes us different from the rat race.

Having said that: most of them, after shown once, are more than capable of performing a task like adding an email address. We use the enhanced skin, and they've never said anything negative about it.
 
@ranz,

Have you looked at the available flash video demos? We bit the bullet and bought them, and they really help in our support issues.

I had a conversation yesterday with one of the flash video publishers; I'm still trying to talk him into creating a set for email conversion between port 25 unauthenticated and port 587 with password authentication, as that's the default for the new SpamBlocker.

So far I haven't convinced him but I'm still trying.

Jeff
 
NVarra said:
I hear you cyberneticos.

What would I love to see DirectAdmin feature soon is;

  • A nice new modern skin (tableless with AJAX etc...)
  • A way to config/run custombuild from within DA (and watch the compile via AJAX - hey, one can always hope :P).
  • An official mail user access level.
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Yeah, what he said.........


floyd said:
As you know any form of art is very subjective. A skin is nothing but art. I personally think the DA enhanced skin is the best one out there. I have looked today at the most popular control panels out there. I do not like any of them. I see a few people have commented in this thread in favor of a new skin. Apparently the other members of the forum really don't care that much.
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Actually I care, but I don't read every post and comment on it. I've only just come across this thread.

Comparing software packages is like comparing political parties. Perception is everything. We all know Direct Admin is great, but to the new prospective clients, looks matter.

I've just changed over to the Capri skin it has some ajax, but it looks a fair bit more modern.

I'd love to see DA go to a full-on AJAX enabled skin with direct access to custombuild and maybe administrator configurable macro buttons that can execute shell commands to save having to ssh into it.
 
We all know Direct Admin is great, but to the new prospective clients, looks matter.
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Exactly. And the DirectAdmin Enhanced skin is preferred by my clients 150 to 1. So whatever happens I hope the Enhanced skin is supported because that is what is preferred by the vast majority of my clients.

I even now give my new clients a choice of Cpanel or DirectAdmin. More still choose DirectAdmin over Cpanel.

I have no objection to new skins as long as the old ones are still supported. My clients do not like all the clutter of Cpanel and Cpanel like skins.
 
cbservers said:
I'd love to see DA go to a full-on AJAX enabled skin with direct access to custombuild and maybe administrator configurable macro buttons that can execute shell commands to save having to ssh into it.
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If the DirectAdmin control panel allowed shell commands then you'd have to allow only https connections.

Jeff
 
floyd said:
I have no objection to new skins as long as the old ones are still supported.
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I think dropping support for a popular skin would be a self defeating exercise.

jlasman said:
If the DirectAdmin control panel allowed shell commands then you'd have to allow only https connections.
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You could include a setting to only allow those shell commands/functions while under a SSL connection.
 
Thanks!

Thanks to this thread, I discovered the Capri skin, which I immediately purchased ;-)

It's just what I had in mind, when I thought about creating my own skin, to rival other panels. It's beautiful, professional, elegant!

There is no other question about DA vs. other panels. If only for the support I got from Mark over the years, the other Panels simply do not compare in terms of stability, predictability, feature rollout, I just think the DA team are excellent and doing an awesome job. And with the Capri skin, I believe this seals the deal completely!
 
I was given full exclusive rights to this skin in leiu of a years salary for my work as a system administrator for Evanet.lt. Since full exclusive rights don't pay bills, I need to find a suitable buyer to transfer the exclusive rights to this DirectAdmin skin to.

I first approached DirectAdmin with an offer to get the exclusive rights, but thier position is that the skin is not something they're looking for, and that their customers wouldn't like it.

I'm now opening the offer up to the entire DirectAdmin Community.

We've been talking about how other Control Panel packages have moved ahead in the looks department, making DirectAdmin's look and feel seem rather old. While DirectAdmin's core functionality remains best-in-class, it is true that, astetically speaking, it's being passed up.

I am not interested in selling licenses, I'm interested in selling the rights to this entire package, as a whole product, to one buyer who can then choose to do whatever he or she desires to do with it.

If you are interested, please let me know.

Serious inquires only.

Demo:
http://vps.evanet.lt:2222
Login: demo_user
Password : demo
 

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That was the kind of iniciative I was hoping for from DA. They seemed to get the ball rolling with that skin.

¿ What happened ?
 
@smtalk:

Martynas - I really like your skin - excellent job! You've obviously put a stack of work into this - and it shows. I'm just checking it out now - my initial first recommendation would be to put a small border on the Right-hand side to (to cater for wider monitor widths, and frames evenly with the Blue border on the left).
 
smtalk pm me the price that you want to have for it. I like the theme and consider buying it.
 
G'Day Martynas,

I've had a look at the skin that you've developed and it far surpasses anything that's currently available. Well done!!

Just so that I'm clear...and anyone else is clear about it....your NOT selling licenses for your skin?

Cheers Mate!!
 
Thanks for your opinion. No I'm not, but I think that the buyer will do that. And if I don't get any good offers, then there will be no other way just to sell the licenses by myself (unless DirectAdmin changes their opinion and will include this skin to be the default one).
 
To bad that DA wont use this skin by default.
DA is always advancing, except for the looks. DA should look and feel more 2010.
 
walo said:
They only took 4 years to implement that.
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If you don't like that then go some place else ?

Stability is what you get in return for this. I have never ever had any real problems with DirectAdmin, I honestly cannot say that for all the others panels I have worked with (bought some companies in the years that worked with other panels)...
 
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