Direct Admin or LxAdmin which is preferred.
I was offered free directadmin by the host for one of their plan I was about to purchase, where lx is already free. I am used to lxadmin features and have good knowledge about them

I am not askin about support, as I might not b needin too much depth support, I use cp only for just basic work such as domain setup, redirect, ftp account setup, file transfer and settin mail accounts

I use lighthttpd so suggestions based on them would be good

Hello,

Lxadmin it is a great product that uses low resources

Directadmin it is also a great product

for what you need, I belive lxadmin will be better, since you are not concern with support and probably want something that will use low resources.

LxAdmin is a great one, we use it on many VPS's and dedicated servers and its working like a charm.

run vmware or something and run both :P

cPanel is really good should get that but if you can't then get DirectAdmin.

I find LxAdmin pretty user-unfriendly.
Besides it's interface quirks (and totally bad design), it's backend is pretty solid.

Personally, I would choose DirectAdmin though.

Personally, I'd choose Directadmin. :)

Personal opinion = DirectAdmin (simple GUI)

LxAdmin is a bit confusing to me.

I've never used LxAdmin, but I prefer DA over cPanel any day! :)

I find LxAdmin pretty user-unfriendly.
Besides it's interface quirks (and totally bad design), it's backend is pretty solid.

Personally, I would choose DirectAdmin though.


Agreed, LxAdmin is yes too many buttons you always end up loosing where you are.

I'd choose DA

DirectAdmin for me - LXadmin is ok if you have no problems. If you hit problems get ready for a very long wait for a reply in the LXLabs forums as their support leaves a lot to be desired.

DA is good. I switched from cPanel to DA on the basis that DA doesnt take much resources compared to cPanel and most of my clients really like DA's control panel interface. I tried LXAdmin and it is not as user friendly as one would think it would be but it works, just confusing to me that's all. :)

It saddens me to have to reccomend DirectAdmin however I must say our clients have more issues with LXAdmin than DA

Why would it sadden you to recommend DA? DA's a GREAT panel.

I would suggest DirectAdmin. I use this one for years. It has great support, community. With DA API you can do almost everything without loging to control panel. It may run with Lighttpd instead of apache. With Custom Build you can smoothly update PHP, MySQL etc...

As you have mentioned u use lighthttpd, I am not sure if other control panels other than lxAdmin support lighthttpd.

Directadmin works great with lighttpd

Agree, and it may be built-in in standard DA installation.
( http://directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22586 )

Directadmin works great with lighttpd

I never knew that :( I might have chosen DA if I knew it earlier, any how got no probs with lxadmin as I use it just for simple use

Also, DA support is great and they know what they are doing

I used only DirectAdmin and cPanel
I find DA is faster but I don't like that you can't extract zip files like cPanel do:confused:

I would like to use LXAdmin and I wonder if it can extract zip files too ? anybody know ????

You can extract zip files in the file manager with DirectAdmin. You need to install zip to the server and enable it in DA's config files, but you can do it. Out of the box, it does have support for tar.gz files.