DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based
web hosting control panel
A web hosting control panel is a web-based interface provided by a web hosting service that allows users to manage their servers and hosted services.
Web hosting control panels usually include the following modules:
* Web server (e.g. Apache HT ...
allowing administration of
website
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s through a web browser. The software is configurable to enable standalone, reseller, and shared web hosting from a single instance. DirectAdmin also permits management of server tasks and upgrades to package software (such as
Apache HTTP Server,
PHP
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, and
MySQL
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) from within the control panel - simplifying server and hosting configuration.
System requirements
DirectAdmin is compatible with several versions of
CloudLinux,
Red Hat,
Fedora Core
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,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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,
CentOS,
FreeBSD
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,
Ubuntu
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and
Debian
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.
* Processor: 500 MHz
* Memory: 1 GB (2 GB is preferred), with at least 2 GB of swap memory
* HDD Space: minimal 2 GB free space (after the Linux install)
See also
*
Installatron
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*
cPanel
cPanel is a web hosting control panel software developed by cPanel, LLC. It provides a graphical interface (GUI) and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site to the website owner or the "end user". It enables adm ...
*
Domain Technologie Control
Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is a web hosting control panel aimed at providing a graphics-oriented layout for managing commercial hosting of web servers, intended for shared web hosting servers, virtual private servers (VPSes), and dedicate ...
*
Hosting Controller
*
ISPConfig
ISPConfig is a widely used open source hosting control panel for Linux, licensed under BSD license and developed by the company ISPConfig UG. The ISPConfig project was started in autumn 2005 by Till Brehm from the German company projektfarm GmbH.
...
*
Kloxo
Kloxo (formerly known as Lxadmin) was a free and open-source web hosting control panel for the Red Hat and CentOS Linux distributions. As of October 2017, the project has been unmaintained with a number of unresolved issues, and the project's we ...
*
Webmin
Webmin is a powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel for Unix-like systems. Webmin allows the user to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify a ...
*
NeHoX
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References
External links
*
DirectAdmin knowledge baseOfficial forum
Web server management software
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