moving from easyadmin to DA or cpanel

[ofcourse]

Wanting to decide whether to go with DA or cpanel.
Have VPS and host has said they won't support easyadmin panel any longer and has setup cpanel on another system.
Have read elsewhere that cpanel needs at least 256mb but DA will do ok with 128mb.
Have 128mb account, and spacing/bandwidth is not an issue, and see no reason to upgrade if only for cpanel.

Wanting to start using Ruby on Rails and possibly Drupal.
Want to be able to flexibly set up virtual domains and CMS, with spam protection.

Have also been told that DA has less features than cpanel - what are those features?
Should I care if I never need those features or can do through cron or other method?

 

[nobaloney]

DA will run on 128M; in fact the documentation says it'll run on 64M. It's a compiled C++ program, so it's very frugal. That said, I'd never run DA on only 128M, but that's just me. I don't like slow servers, and throwing memory at servers always speeds them up.

As far as features is concerned, why don't you tell us what features you need?

Jeff

 

[ofcourse]

The basic DA features I see are what I need. For this particular VPS using Virtuozzo, I only have about a dozen business sites that I manage and don't see that changing soon. Have been running with easyadmin and would expect DA to operate in a similar manner.
Wanting to easily modify client DNS records and control spam. Have one client where their mail is maintained by their own external email server so it would need to point to their IP/name in their DNS.

Won't add memory unless I see a clear need for it. I realize with going to Drupal that it will require at least 256mb, but that's not right away.

 

[nobaloney]

DA comes with both SpamAssassin and SpamBlocker (SpamBlocker was developed by me). Both are turned off by default.

SpamAssassin is probably not a good idea on a VPS without much memory; you should probably leave it turned off.

SpamBlocker doesn't use resources; in fact generally it saves them. There isn't much documentation on it; you can read about it on these forums.

DA's implementation of the Exim mail server doesn't implement any kind of blocking or scoring using SPF.

You can either give your users control of their own DNS or do it for them. DA includes a default SPF record that will allow you to publish SPF so servers using SPF to decide whether or not to accept email from servers will accept email from your server and from authenticated users.

DA does allow you to assign different mailservers, and allows additional MX records for redundancy as well.

Jeff

 

[ofcourse]

Good information. Thanks.

 

[ofcourse]

The only other curiosity I see with moving from easyadmin to DA is how to move a mailing list to DA (which uses majordomo). Anyone have experience with doing? Looks like I'd have to recreate from scratch and add in the emails to majordomo (which I'm not crazy about as a mailing list).