Twenty places in your dashboard, on DirectAdmin. Below you will find what each one does and when you need it — from your first upload to the mail filter you set up a year later.
Upload, edit and unpack in your browser — no FTP program needed.
Drag a zip into the window and unpack it there. File permissions, hidden files and an editor with syntax highlighting are included, so a quick change to an .htaccess or a config file does not need a separate program.
Separate credentials per person or per folder, for your web developer for instance.
Per account you set which folder it sees. Useful when a web developer should only reach one site, or when a backup script gets its own credentials that you can revoke later without changing your own password.
More than one website on the same package, each with its own folder and its own email.
Every domain gets its own folder, its own email addresses and its own statistics. How many domains you may add depends on your plan; subdomains are unlimited.
Set per site, so an old web shop and a new site can run side by side.
You pick a version up to and including PHP 8.5 per domain or subdomain, and adjust settings like memory_limit and max_execution_time yourself. Test an upgrade on a subdomain first, then move it to the main site.
Scripts that run by themselves — an import, a cleanup, a newsletter at seven in the morning.
You provide a command and a schedule, and the server runs it — even when your computer is off. The output can be mailed to you, so you notice when a task breaks instead of finding out weeks later.
Change every record yourself, even when your domain is registered elsewhere.
You manage A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT and SRV records yourself. If your domain sits with another registrar you can still use our nameservers: management lives here while registration stays there.
Send old addresses to new ones without losing your visitors or your rankings.
A 301 tells Google an address has moved permanently, so your rankings move with it instead of disappearing. Use a 302 for something temporary, such as during maintenance.
Point a second domain name at the same site — with and without a hyphen, say.
Handy for a second spelling of your brand name, or for .nl alongside .com. Both addresses show the same site without you having to place the files twice.
Addresses on your own domain, with webmail and on your phone.
Every address has its own storage and password, and works over IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. Webmail is included, so you can get in without setting anything up, and on your phone it works with the default mail app.
Mail from one address sent on to another automatically, without a second mailbox.
info@ can go to your own address, or to three colleagues at once. You can keep a copy in the original mailbox so there is always an archive.
An automatic reply while you are away or outside office hours.
You set a start and end date and the text goes out automatically to anyone who mails you. It stops by itself at the end, so you do not have to remember to switch it off.
Catch mail sent to an address that does not exist instead of rejecting it.
Typos like inof@ or ifno@ still arrive. Switch it on if you would rather receive everything, and off if spam to invented addresses becomes a nuisance.
Rules on sender or subject, so mail lands in the right folder by itself.
Rules on sender, subject or content move mail to a folder, flag it or delete it. Filtering happens on the server, so it works on your phone too and not only in the program where you made the rule.
As many databases as your package allows, each with its own users and permissions.
You create a database, attach a user to it and decide what rights that user gets. For WordPress the installer handles this; for a manual install or a migration you do it here.
Browse tables, run a query or make an export, straight from your browser.
View tables, run a query, or import a .sql file during a migration. Also useful for an export before you do something risky — usually quicker than restoring a backup.
Let's Encrypt, requested and renewed automatically. You never have to think about it.
The certificate is requested automatically from Let’s Encrypt and renewed every ninety days, including for subdomains. You never have to think about it, and if something does go wrong you find out from an alert rather than from a visitor.
Set how strictly mail is filtered yourself, per address.
Per address you set how strictly mail is filtered and what happens to suspicious messages: flag, quarantine or reject. Senders that must always get through go on their own list.
A folder behind a password — a test version that is not finished yet, for example.
The folder asks for a username and password before anything loads. Useful for a test version, a client portal, or a folder that should not appear in Google.
Log in with a key instead of a password.
With a key you log in without a password — safer, and required for automatic deployment from Git. You can add several keys and revoke one without touching the others. SSH access is included from the second plan onwards.
See who is shut out, and let yourself back in after a few failed login attempts.
An address that keeps trying to log in or floods your forms can be shut out here. That can be a single address or a whole range.
Pick a plan, or let us migrate your site — then you do not have to do anything.
