Is directadmin for us?

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Xylitol

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We are at the moment using vhcs(highly customized) as our control panel and since it's official development/support is basicly dead we are searching for commercial options.

First of all has anyone heard of a simple integration method to transfer a vhcs-system to use directadmin? Or if possible, does anyone know if there is some company that offers this kind of a service? There are hundreds of clients + data to be transferred.

The thing that keeps driving us towards directadmin is its price. The other option is cpanel which is probably the most common control panel that hosting companies use. What's the main things that make directadmin better than cpanel?

I didn't find it straight away but I assume that running php as fcgi is not a prob with da?

*Edit: I gotta add some more questions still..
-Are there any translations to da?
-Are there any one-click-installers to da(fantastico etc)?
-Is it possible to integrate billing systems to da?
 
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I am rather new to control panels on the admin side, but as a user, I like DA much better for the following:

1) speed (every cpanel and plesk I have tried was too slow for me)
2) ease of use (I could find stuff ususally the first or second place I looked)
3) this forum and the help files. I can't stand sitting on hold waiting for someone to tell me where something is I need to click on (again, see 2 above)
4) access to some fairly impressive filters and plugins (many can be found searching this forum)

On the admin side, I like:

1) easy to find stuff
2) this forum is very responsive
3) price
4) fast, so I need less resources to make it run well
5) many of the tasks I need to do, have already been done before, and I have access to them on this page.
6) suggestions are taken seriously, and are usually implemented quickly

Sorry if this sounds like a pitch, maybe it's becuase I am new, and have my shiny new panel that after 2 years of troubles with other panels, finally works right.

Also, I gave this some thought recently as I just was out looking and landed here.

If my post is out of line, if a mod could either delete it or mail me to delete that would be great

p.s. I have no idea how to move your stuff from vhcs, but I bet someone here probably could (depending on your customizations).
 
I have tried other control panels, e.g. Plesk, cPanel, and Ensim Pro, and like DirectAdmin much better. The template system is great, I like the ability to have scripts run whenever a domain, user, e-mail account, etc. is created, I like the interface in DA much better than other panels (it's not as clunky), and the speed is fast. Whenever I've made feature requests or bug reports, the've been integrated into DA in a reasonable amount of time. I only wish that there were better branding options in DA, without the need to modify the skins.

If you want to have a one-click installer system, check out www.installatron.com. They have a system much like Fantastico that integrates into DA as a plug-in.

For billing, systems like ModernBill, ClientExec, and AWBS integrate well with DA. I use ClientExec myself. There might be others that I'm not thinking of right now.

Hope this helps.
 
There's almost nothing you can't do alongside of DirectAdmin; it's a C++ package and doesn't use scripts.

While it doesn't care about much, of course it doesn't manage some kinds of changes.

I believe you can run PHP as a cgi; you might want to search these forums for more information. Search specifically for running multiple versions of PHP; that's where the most active discussions would be.

The last unanswered question appears to be about translations.

DirectAdmin is skinnable, and you can write your skin in any language. There are some free translation skins available; personally I fear free stuff that requires maintenance unless it's got an active community behind it (look at your own post to see why). Even with skins, DirectAdmin doesn't have a file for text not in the skins, so some of DirectAdmin will always appear in English.

There are disadvantages in commercial products as well :) .

Jeff
 
PHP as cgi

Do most of the DA users run php as a module for apache then?

In my opinion it's more like a standard to run php as cgi or fcgi since first of all it improves the security a lot and second of all the use of different scripts becomes a lot easier.
 
I do, but then again, I'm not well versed in PHP. I always thought just about everyone did, and it is DirectAdmin standard.

Care to write and tell us more :) ?

Jeff
 
PHP is installed as CLI by default (as module), but you can use CustomBuild to install it as CGI (fcgi).
 
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I do, but then again, I'm not well versed in PHP. I always thought just about everyone did, and it is DirectAdmin standard.

Care to write and tell us more :) ?

Jeff
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More about what? :)

fcgi would be really important to have. One example of the security problem is that when the php-scripts are ran as apache-user it gives a lot more advantage to a hacker to exploit the server. Disabling php-functions of course helps but not as good as running the scripts as the user-id. The notorious r57 and r99 are probably one of the worst examples of this, a child can use those and they can cause a lot of sleepless nights to an isp.

Plain cgi is just old and slow. And the design is idiotic
 
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