I prefer DA to cPanel not that it's better but because cPanel uses DNS to manage add-on domains. Add-on domains are subdomains of the main domain in cPanel which isn't ideal for me. I wonder if there is any solution to avoid adding add-on domains as subdomains.
I really don't get it - particularly when talking about personal use. How many web sites do you have? So you set up your web sites once (add domain/subdomain, enable Let's Encrypt certificate, set PHP version, maybe some other stuff), and then your are done with the panel. Did the panel let you do that? If yes, great. Move on and forget about the panel, you are done. If no, another panel is obviously better.
What am I missing here - why are people so focused on which panel they use for a (hopefully) one time job?
@cmeerw said: why are people so focused on which panel they use for a (hopefully) one time job?
Because hobbyists (like me) focus on the equipment, but professionals (like you) focus on the results.
As a hobbyist, I love the old style command line terminal -- all green text, no color, line oriented, ed editor. Probably no professional works this way nowadays.
Many hobbyists keep setting everything up over and over again. These hobbyists say, "Mmmm! What happens if I try DirectAdmin instead of cPanel?"
Meanwhile professionals like you complete the present job both very well and very quickly and then just as quickly move on to their next job.
Haha, it's absolutely an index of your professionalism that you don't understand why some people focus so much on which panel they use for a (hopefully) one time job.
The one you already know - to save time.
The one you don't know already - if you want to learn/try something new.
None as every panel is cancer and sooner or later you will hit some obstacle and nothing beats custom config VPS.
To me, both the cli and the control panel are just tools that save me time. Clicking the mouse is usually easier for me than typing commands and configuration files.
They both have their quirks, depends what you're running.
Generally think cPanel shared handles multiple domains better than DA. But DA resellers are cheap enough that you can split them out into multiple accounts.
From the admin side, I can tell you cPanel is better to manage - DA causes more headaches.
@cmeerw said:
I really don't get it - particularly when talking about personal use. How many web sites do you have? So you set up your web sites once (add domain/subdomain, enable Let's Encrypt certificate, set PHP version, maybe some other stuff), and then your are done with the panel. Did the panel let you do that? If yes, great. Move on and forget about the panel, you are done. If no, another panel is obviously better.
What am I missing here - why are people so focused on which panel they use for a (hopefully) one time job?
Personally I use panels for testing. I'm not really a webdeveloper per se but my customers often asks me for help with websites etc. What I then like to do is spin up a copy of their website, find a solution and make sure it works as intended and then publish the website. Having a panel makes it extremely easy to add a temporary domain, spin up a copy of the website, do some testing and then move it to production. I could do it with CLI only but running a panel makes it so easy to do, and I can even allow my customers access and let them test stuff themselves. Lately I've started leaning towards Fastpanel for personal use, it is extremely easy yet powerful and it's completely free. I have my doubts how well it would do professional hosting, but for personal use and testing it's awesome.
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I prefer DA to cPanel not that it's better but because cPanel uses DNS to manage add-on domains. Add-on domains are subdomains of the main domain in cPanel which isn't ideal for me. I wonder if there is any solution to avoid adding add-on domains as subdomains.
Plesk > Cpanel > Directadmin
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Is it possible to offer Plesk in the future?
Not interested in offering a 3rd panel for effectively the same product.
If we offered a 3rd panel it would be to offer windows hosting or something.
Francisco
RDP?
I just install the following programs to run my trivial blog:
sudo pacman -Sy nginx mariadb-lts php-legacy-cgi cloudflaredA 256 MB OpenVZ VPS or 512 MB KVM one with IPv6 or NAT IPv4 will be powerful enough.
Is there anything the panels can do but the cli cannot?
MicroLXC is lovable. Uptime of C1V
No, for .NET, ASP, MSSQL, etc.
Francisco
Simplicity for most average users.
https://microlxc.net/
I really don't get it - particularly when talking about personal use. How many web sites do you have? So you set up your web sites once (add domain/subdomain, enable Let's Encrypt certificate, set PHP version, maybe some other stuff), and then your are done with the panel. Did the panel let you do that? If yes, great. Move on and forget about the panel, you are done. If no, another panel is obviously better.
What am I missing here - why are people so focused on which panel they use for a (hopefully) one time job?
Because hobbyists (like me) focus on the equipment, but professionals (like you) focus on the results.
As a hobbyist, I love the old style command line terminal -- all green text, no color, line oriented, ed editor. Probably no professional works this way nowadays.
Many hobbyists keep setting everything up over and over again. These hobbyists say, "Mmmm! What happens if I try DirectAdmin instead of cPanel?"
Meanwhile professionals like you complete the present job both very well and very quickly and then just as quickly move on to their next job.
Haha, it's absolutely an index of your professionalism that you don't understand why some people focus so much on which panel they use for a (hopefully) one time job.
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
The one you already know - to save time.
The one you don't know already - if you want to learn/try something new.
None as every panel is cancer and sooner or later you will hit some obstacle and nothing beats custom config VPS.
Decide what is the key for you. :-D
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They both do an equal job.
To me, both the cli and the control panel are just tools that save me time. Clicking the mouse is usually easier for me than typing commands and configuration files.
They both have their quirks, depends what you're running.
Generally think cPanel shared handles multiple domains better than DA. But DA resellers are cheap enough that you can split them out into multiple accounts.
From the admin side, I can tell you cPanel is better to manage - DA causes more headaches.
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For personal use, save your money and use Control(Centos) Webpanel or the much more basic TinyCP.
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For me, DA > CPanel
its more simple to manage subdomain in DA than cpanel
Personally I use panels for testing. I'm not really a webdeveloper per se but my customers often asks me for help with websites etc. What I then like to do is spin up a copy of their website, find a solution and make sure it works as intended and then publish the website. Having a panel makes it extremely easy to add a temporary domain, spin up a copy of the website, do some testing and then move it to production. I could do it with CLI only but running a panel makes it so easy to do, and I can even allow my customers access and let them test stuff themselves. Lately I've started leaning towards Fastpanel for personal use, it is extremely easy yet powerful and it's completely free. I have my doubts how well it would do professional hosting, but for personal use and testing it's awesome.
For personal use, choose cPanel for ease and features or DirectAdmin for affordability and lower resource usage.
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