Ability to add your own package items in DirectAdmin.
Both panels offer this capability.ĭirectAdmin is highly, highly customizable. This ticketing system is intended for hosting resellers so that an account owner can be easily contacted by that account user.Īnother feature that is useful especially for resellers is the ability to mass email all accounts they own. One feature that DirectAdmin includes that cPanel does not is an internal ticketing system. MySQL 8 is currently available for DirectAdmin servers, where version 5.7 is the highest available version for cPanel as of August 2019. Both cPanel and DirectAdmin are good choices if you desire a stable, production environment. If the latest and greatest is your preference, DirectAdmin offers this.
DirectAdmin has no official support for this, however, considering that one can install custom Apache modules via CustomBuild, it may not be too difficult to implement.ĬPanel also currently has official support for Tomcat, but like its Ruby on Rails and Python app support, the implementation has been completely overhauled.ĭirectAdmin has been offering FastCGI and PHP-FPM for some time, where cPanel implemented these in the past few years. Using ModPassenger for RoR, WSGI, and NodeJS applications looks like a promising and more stable method of hosting these applications, which is how cPanel now handles these. DirectAdmin instead supports OpenLitespeed, which is still very new and has been reported to cause high CPU and/or RAM usage, though both the CloudLinux and DirectAdmin teams are typically quick to resolve such issues.ĬPanel also implemented Apache’s ModPassenger, which has allowed them to offer support for Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, and Python applications. It lacks CRIU and connection pooling but is still much faster and for more efficient than DSO.
LSAPI is the free version of LSAPI PRO from Litespeed and CloudLinux. Despite this, cPanel was able to implement support for LSAPI whereas DirectAdmin has not.
DirectAdmin has had support to Nginx for a very long time, whereas cPanel just began to support it in 2019. Innovation and 3rd-party AppsĭirectAdmin has been quick to implement some features that many have considered absolute hosting necessities. They do this by partnering with those developers to provide a robust platform that your average user could utilize for whatever project need that they have, we go over some of them below as well as providing a list of log locations for various applications at the end of this article. cPanel & DirectAdmin: Development & Log LocationsĬPanel and DirectAdmin both pioneer in integrating third-party apps to allow for more combined usage out of their panels.cPanel & DirectAdmin: SQL, DNS and Email.