Grouping domains under single user

[Ch3vr0n]

First off, if this is in the wrong section, please move it.

Couple of days ago a provider I use for my domain registration announced the next step into their merger with the parent company. This results in a net price hike of 50% for domain registration, and I'm guessing their vps prices will be next. So I went and found my new vps provider, and am awaiting to hear what exactly they need from me to migrate my plesk vps back to Directadmin.

Now 1 feature I've grown to like a lot under plesk is where you can create 1 single user login for the access panel, but have multiple domains under them each with their own domain settings (as in ftp, mail,...) WITHOUT the individual domains sharing the same allocated disk space.

The closest thing i can think off is the reseller level on DA but that would give them reseller level capabilities too. I don't want that, i just need a way to group domains hostings for a single customer under 1 central account per customer making it easy for them to access and maintain their domains.

What's the easiest way to achieve this

 

[Richard G]

WITHOUT the individual domains sharing the same allocated disk space.

You mean different allocated disk space like if you have seperate accounts? It's not quite clear to me because you say:

The closest thing i can think off is the reseller level on DA but that would give them reseller level capabilities too

The only thing which would be different under reseller level is that a reseller can create user accounts (and some other permissions).
I might misunderstand you because I'm not native English.

What's the easiest way to achieve this

Imho just a user account. It can containt various domains. All domains will have their own path like:
/home/user/domains/domain.com/public_html
so another domain would get into:
/home/user/domains/otherdomain.org/public_html
where in fact every domain has it's own space and their own email addresses.
Only mysql and FTP are shared. However, it's possible to create an extra FTP account which limits access to the domain it points to.

 

[Ch3vr0n]

Ha Richard you again, ya helped me good last time!

If the following isn't clear, I'll e-mail you a screenshot of a customer setup on the plesk server with multiple domains.


I know you can add multiple domains to a single user, but last time i had to use DA at hosting account creation was just under a year ago.

If i remember correctly (and I could be wrong), if you add multiple domains at the da user level they SHARE the allocated disk space assigned to the user across all domains combined.

So assume user A is assigned 500MB package. Adds 1 domain. That 500mb is available to the domain. At some point wants another domain. If i added it normal that 500MB would now get divided across 2 domains. Leaving them with 250 each. What I would need and do now is assign 500MB to a domain. So 2 domains would have 500MB EACH (total 1gb), not 500mb for both domains combined. Same goes goes for ftp, MySQL... Nothing shared per domain.

Each domain stands on its own as an individual account, grouped under a single login to manage each domain. On plesk a user doesn't have disk space assigned, the domain hosting account does. Per domain

1 user x 3 domains @500mb/domain: 1.5gb allocated

Not

1 user x 3 domains : 500Mb / 3 = 175mb (approx) per domain

 

[Richard G]

Ha Richard you again, ya helped me good last time!

Hello Ch3vr0n.
Thank you for the compliment.

they SHARE the allocated disk space assigned to the user across all domains combined.

Yes that's what I ment by the /home/user directory, all what is below that is shared by the same user. I see that is want you mean by shared space.

As far as I know, what you want to achieve is not possible with DA. You would need seperate user accounts for that. This isn't even possible as admin or reseller, because every account has it's own quota or space.

I almost didn't work with Plesk (only a very little bit), I didn't know that in Plesk the hosting account has space assigned per domain.
DA does not have any MB/domain setting as package. If I remember correctly CP doesn't either so Plesk might be the only one.

The only thing I can think of in DA which would come closest, is to for example give a user some limit (like 2 GB) and then himself can limit a domain to 500 MB (in the domain settings) and another one also to 500MB etc. until the 2 GB are used.
However, if mistaken then he could also use 1500 mb for a domain.

Maybe anybody else has some interesting idea's or tips for you.