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Luca P.
LP
✅ CTO - Growth Marketer full stack #MarTech | ⚡️ SaaS Advisor
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Web Control Panel"
What do you like best about DirectAdmin?

DirectAdmin is a web hosting control panel that fits into the Web Hosting Control Panel category, competing with tools like cPanel and Plesk.

From a technical standpoint, I appreciate that DirectAdmin provides:

• Consistent core functionality for managing hosting environments, including domain management, email configuration, and database administration.

• Command-line debugging options: The ability to run DirectAdmin in various debug modes (e.g., `--debug=2000`) is valuable for diagnosing service-level issues and tracking down root causes when the UI or basic logs are insufficient.

• Clear system service integration: DirectAdmin interacts well with systemd, allowing standard service management commands (`systemctl start/stop/status directadmin`) for administrators.

• Firewall configuration guidance: The documentation includes straightforward instructions for opening necessary ports (like 2222) and integrating with tools such as CSF.

• Basic documentation coverage: There are instructions for troubleshooting common issues, including service failures, port access, and license validation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DirectAdmin?

The most significant problem is the consistently poor support experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhruval J.
DJ
Founder
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best Alternative to Existing Control Panel"
What do you like best about DirectAdmin?

It's an affordable and complete solution available for web hosting, it has all the required features and is a go-to choice for Web Hosting Providers. We use this to offer affordable web hosting on a shared platform. With its support to CloudLinux and JetBackup DirectAdmin is ready to use in enterprise Shared Web Hosting environments similar to cPanel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DirectAdmin?

Not much, it has still some amature features and little costly, some open source panels can really beat DirectAdmin if someone don't want to pay in 2 digit per month . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It’s easy for maintenance"
What do you like best about DirectAdmin?

Email feature, security & client support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DirectAdmin?

I can’t remember. But in this pandemic situation sometimes I had getting slow response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DC
Owner
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Hosting and Domain Control Panel"
What do you like best about DirectAdmin?

DirectAdmin is great for most of the actions and tasks you need to do when managing a website. The interface is easy to use and there are lots of options for users of all levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DirectAdmin?

I feel like competitors have more features and a slightly more user-friendly interface with more support articles. If something is not clear, you can usually find help by searching online but you can expect mixed results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dickens H.
DH
Research Consultant
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Moving From Direct Admin"
What do you like best about DirectAdmin?

The ability to manage your web files through Direct Admin, which is basic thing that all the web hosting software should do Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DirectAdmin?

Used it for my WordPress website. Finding files, especially when i needed to delete files due to space, was a nightmare. Unlike Cpanel where you know for sure the location of your files through the softaculous installer, the WordPress installation on direct admin won't be there in softaculous, I don't know why it's hidden. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BF
C
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Maximum security with a professional user interface"
What do you like best about DirectAdmin?

DirectAdmin has a professional user interface that makes finding website software easy. Creating and managing an email account is manageable within the DirectAdmin panel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DirectAdmin?

DirectAdmin is a perfect tool to manage website tools and software; I have never experienced any technical challenge while using the software; once I encounter any technical error, I will update my review Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SJ
Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Makes reselling of software and website hosting space more easier"
What do you like best about DirectAdmin?

DirectAdmin is easier to deploy and install, coming with all the possible features to resell website hosting and dedicate servers easier than other website control panels Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DirectAdmin?

DirectAdmin is a perfect tool for me at the moment, and we use it as the primary panel to sell VPS, dedicated servers, and shared servers at our company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KP
marketing agent
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to use with friendly user interface that makes it easy for one to find features"
What do you like best about DirectAdmin?

It is clean, secure, and professionally looking great, have the best interface, which makes it easy to find features within the dashboard, and does not block IP addresses as how the control panel does most times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DirectAdmin?

Directadmin being a new product fetching market lacks enough resources to run the most useful commands, like running Python Django is very difficult in DirectAdmin as it lacks enough resources that explain that much. Therefore they should consider providing more resources to improve the product to users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MR
Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to Install on servers"
What do you like best about DirectAdmin?

Direct Admin has fair prices for both small and big enterprises, is Easy to install on servers, and have the best user interface, which makes navigation so easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DirectAdmin?

It has limited resources when it comes to some integration, and running server commands like Python-Django, and setting up the Noode.js application requires a lot of third parties within DirectAdmin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KP
support agent- Appnomu
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Have the best user interface to manage website software"
What do you like best about DirectAdmin?

It is easy to use while reselling website hosting as you create and manage packages with ease, suspend or delete users in case of violation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DirectAdmin?

Running some popular commands like Python-Django is very difficult in the DirectAdmin as there are limited resources to help out how to create an order, and the support team does not respond on time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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