DirectAdmin vs. Virtualmin -- please your opinions

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Hello,

please tell me your opinions about the advantages and disadvantages of DirectAdmin over Virtualmin GPL.

We have some dedicated servers but only for our own projects. We have about 50 to 100 domains (sites) on the servers. We don't need reseller accounts.

But we need a fast, flexible and reliable system with good support and community.

Thank you in advance.
 
These forums make up the DirectAdmin user community. DirectAdmin is well supported, secure, and written in C++.

I've never tried Virtualmin or the community; hopefully you've posted on one of their forums as well :) .

Jeff
 
I have find Virtualmin more flexible and faster to setup things.

I guess you have to go with DA for the good support you are looking for, otherwise virtualmin seems perfect for me.
 
I found virtualmin much more convoluted than directadmin, but that is just my personal experience.
 
Auraka, you are right. Virtualmin is much more convoluted than DirectAdmin but on the other hand it is much more powerful then DirectAdmin.

After some evaluation I decided to use Virtualmin GPL now.

From the point of user friendlyness of the GUI I have the following ranking:

1. ISPmanager
2. DirectAdmin
...
5. Virtualmin
 
I just tried out Virtualmin and I must admit that there are much, much more options.

What's important is: are those options really needed?
Keep in mind that more features means always more bugs. No matter who wrote the program, how, in what language, in how much time.
I'm a security analyst and programmer, I know what I'm talking about :)

I'm fine with DA and I have just scripted the modifications I needed.
Never had a bug or a glitch, even on a high-load 176days uptime system, even on a VPS that keeps hitting the maximum RAM limits.
DA is robust, standalone, scriptable, well documented and the community is just great.

My 2 cents.
 
dandumet,

My opinion (single server, handful sites) from 2017 to date is that I can understand DirectAdmin and get things done.

At the time I found WHM too expensive, VirtualMin too confusing, and the others too unmaintained (or not).

Things may have changed since then with the choices, but having nailed my colours to the DA mast in 2017 I have found no need to change ships. Since then I have upgraded os, had a forced IP change, and this last week moved to new server, updated os, with a new IP, and change of DNS hosting - actually running two servers (yes, I have both licenced) on it temporalily for switch. At each change DA remained reliable, secure, and predictable. I can navigate (keeping the nautical theme:-)) DA and the only problems that I have had were of my own making. I can still recommend DA for part-time admins (me) who want a relatively simple interface to do complex things - I don't have the experience to comment on other use cases.

Cheers

Neil
 
@Richard G I don't get it ... if you have some valuable input please share.
I am evaluating both... somehow DA ticks some of my requests but Virtualmin it's not bad at all..
 
What do you don't get?
1. ) Upping a 14 year old ancient thread is just not done, even for this.
2.) You're talking about some kind of free "compatition" which is always comparing appels and pears
3.) If it would have been better in all those years, you would have be able to read about it at multple places
4.) There are way better sites to maybe even get more indepedant answers (like webhosting forums).
5.) I never have seen any free panel being better (especially for security) then any paid panel.

If you want to play host and hobby, use Virtualmin.
If you want to start a professional business, keep of the free stuff.

Sorry if I'm a bit blunt but upping that ancient things is very unprofessional.
 
Yep, sorry, I always start to grumble if people up ancient threads.
So Welcome on the forum. If you choose for DA I will be glad to be of any help as far as I'm able to. ;)
 
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