Hello

I've been using cPanel on my servers for quite a while and I feel as though it's too bloated. I don't feel like I'm in control of my own server.

I've been trialling DA at home and so far I'm very impressed with how clean and fast it is. By clean, I mean lightweight and not having every feature in the world and thus inherent security risks. DA's pre-sales support has been great as well (reply within 20 mins average, any time of the day), so I'm just about sold. My emails to cPanel take days for a reply, which is just not good enough.

The only issue I have with DA is not much support for 64 bit (only CentOS) and the lack of doco of what it actually does to the system (but neither does cPanel or any others that I've researched)... but the install is quite verbose, so I can just run another clean install and log stdout/stderr for that. The price is good too.

Before I purchase DA, does anyone have any other recommendations? I like a lot of control and minimal screwing around with system files and configuration, with a simple, clean to use interface.

me too got server running on DA and 90% of my customer love it.

Personally I love DirectAdmin. Very simple to use and administer. I hope you have good fortune finding one that works for you.

Hello
Before I purchase DA, does anyone have any other recommendations? I like a lot of control and minimal screwing around with system files and configuration, with a simple, clean to use interface.
What kind of needs do you have?
What kind of needs do your users (sites) have?
What kind of $$$ do you have?

This is extremely important information, you can't just ask what is the best, you need to ask what is the best for you.

btw: read this (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=505186) short review i just wrote.

cheers

I switch from cpanel to directadmin and my client got no complain and feel it happy with it

I'd use DirectAdmin or Plesk. I use DirectAdmin on my servers, but plesk is clean and stable too.

I'd say Plesk 8 is the cleanest, thats mainly down to the theme though.

Take a look at InterWorx (http://www.interworx.com). It's so sexy!

Yeah interworx is pretty nice too thinking about it :).

Take a look at InterWorx (http://www.interworx.com). It's so sexy!

Haha, we're glad you approve :-)

*note* I have not given InterWorx the try it truly deserves, but I have been meaning to for quite a while *note*

DirectAdmin is by far the cleanest control panel I have used personally (as a client, reseller, and admin).

Hello

I've been using cPanel on my servers for quite a while and I feel as though it's too bloated. I don't feel like I'm in control of my own server.

I've been trialling DA at home and so far I'm very impressed with how clean and fast it is. By clean, I mean lightweight and not having every feature in the world and thus inherent security risks. DA's pre-sales support has been great as well (reply within 20 mins average, any time of the day), so I'm just about sold. My emails to cPanel take days for a reply, which is just not good enough.

The only issue I have with DA is not much support for 64 bit (only CentOS) and the lack of doco of what it actually does to the system (but neither does cPanel or any others that I've researched)... but the install is quite verbose, so I can just run another clean install and log stdout/stderr for that. The price is good too.

Before I purchase DA, does anyone have any other recommendations? I like a lot of control and minimal screwing around with system files and configuration, with a simple, clean to use interface.

I would recommend DirectAdmin. However, the 64-bit issue is a problem, and, I'm not sure if you could install 32-bit DirectAdmin on a 64-bit box, etc. You could give it a try, and, if it doesn't work, install the 32-bit version of whichever distribution you are running.

Later,
Nick

For windows I like Helm, it's a little clunky moving around in but they are about to release a new version which is mroe effeicent to navigate

... not having every feature in the world and thus inherent security risks.

There is no correlation actually.

For Linux, its cPanel and for windows, its Hosting Controller with PanelXP(Blue) skin. The WYSIWYG in both cPanel and HC works perfectly fine with me and my customers. :)


Blessed.