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The DirectAdmin Panel - the convenient decision for management of virtual hosting servers. The Homepage of the developer - here. The panel allows to operate not only end-user’s accounts, but also reseller’s accounts. The product has web the interface and a plenty of decisions for hosting service provider, resellers and end-users. DirectAdmin this following generation of stability of control panel systems of hosting service.

This panel differs in the high speed of work and simplicity in use. DirectAdmin contains all the necessary components for management of a server with the graphic interface (GUI). During too time the system is not overloaded by superfluous functions to not puzzle the system administrator.

The basic advantages:

  • Ease of management. DirectAdmin is a convenient control panel of hosting server. Ease in adjustment and resource management of servers.
  • Speed. DirectAdmin the fastest and not exacting to resources of a server the panel from all existing commercial control panels of hosting servers.
  • Stability. The special system of restoration after failures allows to avoid idle times in work hosting a server. DirectAdmin automatically restarts services at them shutdown.
Functions of the manager

  • Creation/change of managers and resellers - Fast and easy creation reseller accounts and additional managers;
  • Package (tariff) resellers - the Manager can create packages of resellers, at creation of the client the manager simply chooses a package not editing each record;
  • The List of users - the Opportunity of viewing of accounts of users, sorting, editing;
  • Administration DNS - This feature allows the admin to create, modify, or delete any DNS records on the server;
  • Purpose IP - Installation IP of addresses of a server, and also purpose of IP-addresses to users;
  • The Information on system - Instant access to the status of system and the information on system;
  • Statistics of use - Access to the information on the status of system, and the information on it, and also statistics of the borrowed resources.
Functions of reseller

  • Purpose IP of addresses - reseller can appoint IP to users using the given option of the menu;
  • The Statistics of reseller - reseller is accessible brief and full statistics on use, also reseller can make sorting for a fast estimation of a situation;
  • Creation/Change accounts - Creation accounts, the list, change, removal (quickly and easily);
  • Packages (tariffs) of users - reseller can create itself the user packages, at creation of the client reseller simply chooses a package not editing each record;
  • The Message to all users - reseller can quickly send the message to all users using the built in system of support of tickets;
  • Import/change of skins - reseller of skins the option of import, change, purpose is accessible to the control panel;
  • The Information on system - Instant access to the status of system and the information on system;
  • Nominal servers - resellers can create own nominal servers for the clients.
Functions of the user

  • E-Mail - creation of users of e-mail, installation of the address of reception of all other mail of the domain, redirect, post robots, answering bots, sheets of dispatch, filters, MX record, web-mail, SMTP identification
  • FTP - creation FTP accounts, change/removal FTP accounts, the sanction of anonymous access, creation FTP of users for sub domains
  • DNS - change of adjustments DNS, A record, CNAME record, NS record, MX record, PTR record
  • Statistics - check of an accessible place on a disk and the traffic, access to magazines of access of a site, viewing of the information about accounts, the information on hits and visitors in Webalizer, start scripts: CGI-scripts, catalogues of programs, viewing of established modules Perl, PHP scripts, use PHPMyAdmin.
  • MS FrontPage - the Sanction and an interdiction of expansions FrontPage, loading of a site by means of MS FrontPage
  • Sub-domains - creation sub-domains, removal sub-domains, statistics sub-domains, use of magazines, magazine of mistakes, creation FTP of users for separate sub-domains
  • The File manager - navigation, copying of files, moving of files, renaming of files, removal of files, change of access rights for files, creation of new catalogues, creation of new files, editing of files, loading of files.
  • Databases MySQL - creation of databases, removal of databases, addition of users of databases, change of the password of access for a database, work with databases from scripts, use PHPMyAdmin.
  • Reserve copying (backup) - a choice of the information for preservation (data of a site, e-mail, data on FTP, databases MySQL), creation of a backup copy, preservation of a backup copy, restoration of the information from a backup copy.
  • Pages of mistakes - the User can create the pages of mistakes (401, 403, 404 and 500)
  • Protection of categories - the User can set a name and the password for access to a category
  • Additional opportunities - installation SSL of certificates, viewing of the information on a server and established Perl modules, start of tasks under the schedule, types Mime, programs of Apache, relink a site, the parked domains, a hosting of additional domains