Having only used DirectAdmin since the cPanel price increase fiasco, I haven't been with it as long as you have. I had heard of DirectAdmin through all of the years leading up to that, but it always

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I switched to DA in the early days and it has grown, for me personally the cost difference under 100 accounts is negligible, whether it is CPanel / DA. Especially since DA is dropping owned licenses.

From an end user point of view, I would choose cPanel for one reason. cPanel offers good email backups, including forwarders. I have many forwarders. DirectAdmin does not offer simple backups and rest

DA's a great product and the team has always been extremely supportive & receptive. With Namecrane we intend to grow with DA and only keep the cPanel nodes we have, and probably not provision

I obviously can't speak for everyone - but if they're like us, you can't just turn 20+ years of experience and infrastructure from cPanel to something else on a dime.

Directadmin is perfect except their awful Backup and filemanager comparison to cPanel.

The main reason I still have a BuyShared account is because he still has Cpanel.

After getting used to it, I find that I prefer DirectAdmin with the icon grid layout, both as an admin and as a user. I don’t mind cPanel either, but I can’t justify paying more when I can use DirectA

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If you are coming from cpanel dircetadmin is perfect. Nearly every feature except mailman, calendar support and postgres. DA is moving fast though and each release seems to need a few changes (somethi

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domains->domain.com->public_html->html files and subdomain folders . Now, subdomain folders are on the same level as domains, which is way better imho (like it was in cpanel, orig

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Nope, ssh server itself doesn't log the usename and password by default.

Brute Force Password List

Their built in backup solution is garbage compared to cpanel.

If you compare the current Cpanel theme and Directadmin Icons Grid. DA will be more user-firendly.

As a customer, I love it. I can not for the life of me understand why so many seem to prefer cPanel as I find DA superior in every way.