Six months on DirectAdmin after cPanel

Zurich1984 · 2026-05-28T01:46:03+00:00

Migrated 40 client accounts from cPanel to DirectAdmin at Hetzner in January. Prices only go up for cPanel licensing so we bit the bullet. Here's what stuck: - backup restore is faster, less brittle -...

General Discussion by Zurich1984 3mo ago 24 replies 2.2K views

Blaze

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Joined:: Feb 2025
Posts:: 12
From:: São Paulo, Brazil

2mo ago

#21

Ptewhat now

JokoNord

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Joined:: Jun 2024
Posts:: 190
From:: Jakarta, ID

2mo ago · edited

#22

Salam kenal all. Small reseller from Jakarta here. DirectAdmin license from my provider is included in rupiah pricing. Very hard to compare when bundled like this. I think I pay less than USD 2 per account effectively but cannot separate.

traffic worse than my packet loss

cpanelliw780

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shared hosting survivor

Joined:: Jul 2024
Posts:: 131
From:: Phoenix, USA

2mo ago

2 #23

Thats the thing though in phoenix I have to bill in usd and show line items clients see 15 dollar cpanel fee and freak out bundled is smarter

annexbi

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Joined:: Aug 2024
Posts:: 144
From:: Oslo, Norway

2mo ago · edited

9 #24

I automated the migration from cPanel to DA using the built-in conversion tool plus some Ansible for the bits it misses. Took 3 attempts to get email passwords right. The clone Zurich1984 wrote would have saved me a weekend of phpMyAdmin exports.

push. done. coffee.

Zurich1984

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Joined:: Jun 2024
Posts:: 118
From:: Zurich, CH

2mo ago · edited

#25

Email passwords are the worst part. The conversion tool handles hashes differently depending on whether cPanel was using MD5 or SHA-512-crypt. I documented my workaround in the repo README.

/24 for sale. No lowballs.

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