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MakesYouClick

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Hey there (first post here),
I have reseller account. My user-level account holds 5 domains, hosted on a single IP address. I requested 1 extra IP address and I would like to move 1 of those 5 domains to that fresh new IP address. I am a bit confused on how I would do that.
As far as I understood, one user can have one IP only. So my user-level account can either have all those 5 domains on the old IP address, or all 5 of them on the fresh new IP address. What I am trying to achieve is hosting 4 of the domains on the old IP address and 1 domain on the new IP address. Is it possible?
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You have to use ip manager in admin area to add the new ip first. Then you have to assign it to the reseller above the user. After that the reseller can the users ip address in modify user. However a end user cannot have more than one ip address. So you will have to create a new user that will have the new ip address.
 
scsi said:
You have to use ip manager in admin area to add the new ip first. Then you have to assign it to the reseller above the user. After that the reseller can the users ip address in modify user. However a end user cannot have more than one ip address. So you will have to create a new user that will have the new ip address.
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That's what I figured so far. However, this management method sux big time.

In my scenario, the user that I hoped to be able to assign 2 IPs to, runs a couple of domains with pretty large both DBs and amount of files. All I can do now, in order to move on of his domains to a distinct new IP, is to create a new account for him, back up his data, mirror it to the new account and force him to use 2 separate logins for each IPs. Imagine if I would have to do that for 30-50 of his domains, not only I would have to do all this back-and-forth with the backups, but he would end up with 50 logins for each of the 50 IPs. Not much of a chance of keeping him as a customer, huh?
 
The only need to be on more then one ip address is for SSL other then that there is no reason you cannot have all domains on one ip address.
 
Actually there are lots of other reasons why you might want separate IP#s. Some real, some perceptual.

While I understand MakesYouclick's concern, this particular limitation of DirectAdmin is most likely NOT going away, since John of JBMC (publishers of DirectAdmin) have posted so many times on these forums.

The answer for MakesYouClick (probably not one he wants to live with) is to get a DirectAdmin VPS and assigned reseller accounts to users who need multiple IP#s.

Which other control panels allow multiple IP#s per user?

Jeff
 
The problem was `fixed` in the meantime, sort of. the fix was, as I expected, backing up the domain data, renaming that domain to whatever.com, creating a new user with the targeted domain as default, importing the backed up data to that new user. The way I see it: a long shot, prone to errors and quite a hustle considering it would just need a new line in the http server conf (if you didn't run DirectAdmin that is).
Anyway, it all went smooth, no errors so far. The only downside was that all full (not relative) paths had to be updated to make the software I am hosting there to work. One other thing to consider if you go this way is that you will end up with dupe cronjobs: the old-renamed domain if you don't erase it and the new account restored from back up. After fixing those two, everything seems normal and stable.

As about upgrading, I don't have control over that and I have a reseller account only. So this would be completely up to the hosting company. Even so, I am not sure (I am new to this DirectAdmin thing, I mostly host with cPanel), but since the user that suffered the IP change was not at reseller level, so I guess it would still have involved a bit of work. I mean I couldn't predict he would have needed multiple IPs in the future and I would have added him as a normal user, not reseller.
 
Hi Jeff

I think cpanel has this at WHM. Not sure, but I really would like to stay away from cPanel as I never really liked their interface.

Anyhow, DirectAdmin vps , never heard of it before, is it new? How is that different from just DA?
 
You order a VPS from someone (Virtual Private Server) and order it with DirectAdmin installed, or get DirectAdmin and have it installed or install it yourself.

Jeff
 
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