Direct Admin Account
I have a nice setup with Direct Admin on NameCrane, and it works for the most part perfectly and the support desk have been briliant but they use Imunify360, and I can't turn it off, and it's driving me nuts as it keeps deleting things I want (i.e the adminer instance from one of my plugins), and as it's used for WordPress demos and development, that lasts sometimes 15 minutes. Adding exceptions via the support desk is a no-go.
So I am looking for a replacement. I want the same workflow, so I have some needs
- Decent Memory and a couple of cores available and enough space to function ( I am currently on the NC DA Shared 100G) plan
- No Imunify360 or at least the ability for me to turn it off for the whole account
- Unlimited Addon Domains
- Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL certs - For this
(I believe this is a DirectAdmin Function) - API and SSH access to allow me to create subdomains from the command line and delete them again
- Softaculous & Wordpress Manager
I am not overly precious about the other functions, but some email functionality and delivery would be good. I have a transaction email plugin I can install. I have written
How I use it
I have about 8 domains I create demos on and build stuff or test features. I spin up a subdomain, clone one of three or four base installs to it and build from there. I create and delete the subdomains from my command line using a bat script, API and SSH to clear up folders before deleting them.
Sometimes a site will last weeks, others and in most cases the average time is about a day, with some much shorter. I use them mainly for feature demos or tutorial videos.
Let me know your offers/suggestions
Comments
A couple of times Immunify360 deleted my custom PHP script as well (it was running fine before for a couple of years).
At least on cpanel there's an option to add exclusions. Don't recall where it is right away, but check the options or do some google search.
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We do offer DirectAdmin services in Los Angeles and Frankfurt, both on an AMD Ryzen 9950X CPU, we do use imunify360, but I'm open/okay to add exclusions for you, no problem at all, we've done this once before and it works okay.
Everything you need/mentioned -- Softaculous, WordPress Manager, Redis Cache, Wildcard SSL, SSH, API etc is possible too.
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