Newbie: How can I implement DirectAdmin into my Proxmox Server

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I am completely new to installing DirectAdmin. I have a new Proxmox server with No VMs on it as yet. Where can I get some documentation on how to install DirectAdmin onto my Proxmox server and then get information on how it works.

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Lawrence
 
a number of questions come to mind ...
1. should I remove proxmox and dedicate the whole server to DirectAdmin?
2. Do I create a VM within Proxmox and install DirectAdmin onto the VM?

Thanks
Lawrence
 
you can use both variants, you can install preferred DA-compatible OS on bare metal or inside VM. Depends on your vision, if you want another VMs on same hardware, or want to make snapshots of whole DA VPS etc.
 
@Zhenyapan Thanks for responding.
I am very new to this so any input / advice I can get will help me make the decisions.
I understand the difference between Proxmox and DirectAdmin, my confusion is. if I create a VM to install DirectAdmin, how and where will the hosts that are created within DirectAdmin be created and run? Do I have to create separate storage as a destination or can I use the available diskspace on my Proxmox Server. Will all this me managed by DirectAdmin but shown in Proxmox. I am confusing myself, so I hope you understand my question.

Lawrence
 
its for you to decide how to configure, depends on many things, like how your proxmox installed, is it using all your disks now (are you using mirrored raid of small disks/SD cards for proxmox and separate disks for VMs), or you want to install VM on separate disk, do you want to put few separate storages to VM, maybe you are planning to use smaller disk now and extend later etc.
keeping DA inside VM on proxmox has it's benefits, like you don't need IP-KVM to access to your server if by accident broke something in firewall or network, because you have console in proxmox to connect directly to VM, you can make snapshots to restore something. For example you can provide VM few separate partitions, one for OS other for /home+mysql, then snapshot them separately and in any case restore OS without touching /home+mysql etc. it can be various combinations
 
just simple install from cloud provider... Like digitalocean and run update && upgrade, restart, add swap partition.

Then run DA installer.
 
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