DirectAdmin and VPS Hosting
There are a lot of control panel applications that are used by the large number of people, who are interested in web hosting. DirectAdmin is one such control panel application that is quite popular with the people these days. In comparison to the other control panel applications like Plesk and cPanel, DirectAdmin allows much easier navigation. Due to its simple format, DirectAdmin has been able to find a good number of takers.
There are a large number of hosting services that are used by the different people to create their websites. The Virtual Private Servers or VPS is one such web hosting service. Basically VPS has the same features that are found in dedicated web hosting service. At the same time many users can share the server in VPS environments. Thus VPS can be best described as a mix of shared and dedicated web hosting services. Usually the users need to have a good amount of technical skill to handle dedicated web hosting, while it is much easier to handle the shared web hosting service. VPS is quite similar to shared web hosting and is therefore much easier to use.
There are several features of the DirectAdmin that has been discussed below:
Of all the available control panel application currently available in the market, DirectAdmin is the one that is quite easiest to use. Unlike other control panels it is not affected by system crashes and is found to be the cheapest control panel applications.
While used in the VPS environment. DirectAdmin is found to allow user administration in 3 levels. The administrator in DirectAdmin can easily create accounts for either other administrators or resellers and also modify them quite easily. There is also a menu for managing the different IP addresses that are found to be linked to the server.
Resellers can also be benefited by using DirectAdmin and are given the facility to manage user accounts just like the administrator. Not only can they create new accounts, they can also modify them or delete them when they want. Thy also have the option to have interactions with their clients if they want to.
The domain users are also provided the option to create and manage different email accounts. They also can enjoy various features like security, File Manager and services for data backup.
All these features make DirectAdmin the best choice to address your web hosting needs using VPS. Plesk and cPanel are also good control panel applications they are not as user friendly as DirectAdmin making it the popular choice for most people.