Legacy DirectAdmin no longer useful?

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boredtechie

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I purchased a lifetime DA license that I mostly use for fun dev projects and hosting a few non-profit websites. After not touching my server for a few years, I tried to update to a newer OS and Ubuntu gave me the following:
"Legacy DirectAdmin is not compatible with Debian 13 and Ubuntu 24. Continuing with distro upgrade will make DirectAdmin non-functional without an easy way to roll-back distro upgrade."

So it looks like I can no longer use any newer OS? Will it run on anything modern, or do I have to abandon DA?
 
JosKlever

Thread 'AlmaLinux 10 support'

I'm about to get a new server with AlmaLinux and DirectAdmin (Standard license). Does anyone have information about how DirectAdmin runs on AlmaLinux 10, that recently was launched? Any big changes to the software that might have an impact?

My current server (that I will continue to use) is running on AlmaLinux 8.10.
 
boredtechie said:
So it looks like I can no longer use any newer OS? Will it run on anything modern, or do I have to abandon DA?
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Not only modern OS, also no modern MariaDB/MySQL. MariaDB 10.11 is not supported anymore either for example.

You don't need to abandon DA, you can convert your lifetime license (if it's an external license) to a modern license for 50% of the monthly price. Meaning it will cost you $ 14,50 /month but you can not stop or pause the license anymore you have to keep using and paying it to keep the offer valid.
However, then you do have a moder license for modern OS and all modern applications.

Expensive compared to lifetime, but very cheap compared to any other professional (paid) panel.
 
Richard G said:
Not only modern OS, also no modern MariaDB/MySQL. MariaDB 10.11 is not supported anymore either for example.

You don't need to abandon DA, you can convert your lifetime license (if it's an external license) to a modern license for 50% of the monthly price. Meaning it will cost you $ 14,50 /month but you can not stop or pause the license anymore you have to keep using and paying it to keep the offer valid.
However, then you do have a moder license for modern OS and all modern applications.

Expensive compared to lifetime, but very cheap compared to any other professional (paid) panel.
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I just host my own personal pet projects and a few non-profits and hobbyists. I no longer charge anyone for hosting, so $15/month is a little steep. My VPS is $2/month... Would make more sense just to go buy some cheap reseller plan and ditch my VPS altogether.

Alternatively, anyone have experience with Virtualmin? I played with it maybe 10 years ago. Looks like they've since improved and even have an Installatron plugin. Any other recommendations?
 
boredtechie said:
so $15/month is a little steep.
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I totally agree with you, but unfortunately is it what it is. I just mentioned it to be sure and also for others reading the topic and maybe are interested (company's).

Maybe indeed a reseller hosting account or maybe Centos-webPanel. Personally I don't have any experience with Virtualmin and safety.
 
johannes said:
Maybe Webuzo
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Not really if you look at the pricing plans. For 15/month the license is only for 15 user accounts. A converted DA account for 15/month is unlimited users.
Maybe mini cloud as then you have 2 user more than with personal on DA. Full license is a bit cheaper if you don't convert.
 
you can also reinstall your VPS to latest supported OS and it will be ok at least 2-3 years, like Ubuntu22 or Alma/rockylinux9
 
Richard G said:
For OS yes. For database until next year june max. Then it's EOL.
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How about just installing a second mariab instance and using the db hooks to mirror databases and users? Change port in phpmyadmin config, disable database backups in DA and cron your own mysqldump? Like with clusters, but local.
 
sysdev said:
a second mariab instance and using the db hooks to mirror databases and users?
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I woulnd't now how to connect DA with it. I do know DA is looking at their own my.cnf and mysqlconf files.
There might be a very slight possibility that DA might release a way which would make the option available to users to make use of the OS updates. For Alma 9 that would mean back to MariaDB 10.5 and then receive the updates until the OS is EOL.

But it's nowhere sure if they are prepared to do that.
Any workaround I wouldn't know if that would work somehow. Not my technical ballpark either so somebody would have to look at that. ;)
 
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