What is Direct Admin Control Panel?
To manage the website on the host, access to the control panel is required. The most widely used control panels used by service providers are C Panel, Plesk, Direct Admin, .NET Panel, etc. This article will introduce the Direct Admin control panel and explain its features and characteristics to you.
Direct Admin, like C-Panel, is a Linux control panel used to manage websites based on PHP, Python, WordPress, Joomla, and.. direct admin as one of these popular control panels has been very popular in recent years due to its unique features and characteristics. Direct admin can be considered one of the top three and most popular control panels today.
What is Direct Admin Hosting?
As the Linux host on which the C panel is installed Cpanel host, the hosts managed by the DirectAdmin control panel are called the direct admin host.
This control panel can be provided on hosts with Linux operating system. Due to the low power consumption of RAM and CPU in Linux, this control panel also has low power consumption. Direct admin, which does not require very high hardware resources, has a good speed in responding to user requests.
You can get Types of control panels acquainted with other control panels of hosts.
Introduction to Direct Admin Panel
Direct Admin panel is provided to several accesses of different sections. Each of which has a different level of access, management, agency, and the user is one of the most important categories in this control panel.
Account Manager
It means account management. The first menu is in direct admin and includes the following main sections:
Domain Setup
Manage domains; you must use this option to change the domain or add a new domain to the host.
Subdomain Management
To add a subdomain or subdomain.
DNS Management
DNS records must be managed from this section.
SSL Certificate
Certificate activation and recovery of SSL certificates are made from this submenu.
FTP and MY SQL management are other applications of the Account Manager.
Email Manager
The management of emails includes adding a new account, changing the password to the account email, forwarding incoming emails to another account, automatic reply to incoming emails, and… are some of its most important application options.
Advanced Features
Additional features and professionals The third menu is the Direct Admin Control Panel.
Apache Handlers
The first part of this submenu is for web server management.
Create/Restore Backups
As the name implies, it is for backup and restores.
Cron Jobs
Scheduling actions according to the schedule provided to the control panel to perform specific reports and commands and display its output in the appropriate format to the web designer and owner.
System Info & Files
System information and its files can be viewed in this section. The most important of them is File Manager, which manages data that has been uploaded or backed up as a compressed file.
Support and Help
The communication section is with the direct admin to receive support and advice in special cases. You can also see the tickets sent to the Direct Admin support team from this section.
In Advanced Features, you can also park the domain. Article the Domain Park, you can get acquainted with how to do it.
Advantages and disadvantages of Direct Admin
Each control panel has advantages and disadvantages that you should know before choosing it.
Benefits of Direct Admin:
The price is right
direct admin is reasonably priced compared to other control panels and is, therefore, a cost-effective choice.
Proper speed
This control panel has a good speed in responding to users’ requests.
Low volume
Due to its nature and can be installed on Linux servers, Direct Admin also takes up a small amount of hosting servers.
No sanctions
Compared to other control panels, Direct Admin can be used on hosting services, regardless of other control panel restrictions and restrictions. This control panel can be installed safely on servers inside Iran without any worries about restrictions and sanctions on Iran.
Ability to define different accesses
This control panel offers a variety of management, user, and agency access.
Simplicity in use
This control panel has important and practical options that can be easily done to manage the domain, create email accounts, and add databases and other sections.
Disadvantages of Direct Admin
But it also has disadvantages, the most important of which can be mentioned:
Limited to an operating system and lack of Windows support
Direct Admin can only be installed on the Linux operating system, and the number of users is limited due to the lack of support on Windows.
Limited user community
Compared to the C-Panel control panel, which has attracted many users, Direct Admin has not yet gained this popularity.
No third-party plugins are available
There are no add-ons to increase other direct admin features, so there is no need to add sections required by users to increase their level of use.
Direct admin features
At different levels of the Direct Admin control panel, it offers different features to its users, the most important of which are the following options:
Representatives level
- Account management to create, modify and delete user accounts
- Create different and customized packages for users
- View total usage space statistics for each user individually for the agent and service manager
- The system sends messages to each group of different users through the direct admin ticketing support system
- Customizable templates for the agent
Managers level
- Create and control user accounts for multiple administrators and users + assign the required permissions.
- Customize different packages, such as an email list of accounts
- Manage DNS
- Manage IP addresses and assign IPs to user service
User-level
- Manage various sections such as emails, TP FTP accounts, DNS records, subdomains, create and edit databases
- Site backup and file settings
- View user statistics
- Select different versions of PHP
- Install SSL Certificate
How to enter Direct Admin?
According to the host server and supported ports of Direct Admin, you have to enter the admin panel from the following addresses. The Your domain is the domain name for which the hosting services were provided and added to Direct Admin.
The number 2222 is the same as the direct admin port selected to launch it during the installation and management of the control panel.
https://www.yourdomain.com:2222
https://www.yourdomain.com/config
If you have the IP service of the website, you can enter the control panel by adding port number 2222 at the end of the website address.
