With a lot of, hopefully constructive, criticism towards it.
Started playing with it, just to learn the ropes in case it becomes prevalent, but it had more than a few downsides compared to cPanel.
Now, I’d say it has matured. Almost a year since I had completely stopped using any cPanel hosting.
These days, upon hearing the news of my current provider being sold/merged/partnered/something, I started migrating websites to a tried&tested “backup” provider, just in case, before I see how the new system runs after the merge and the server/staff changes are done.
DirectAdmin to DirectAdmin migrations are a breeze!
Even as an ordinary shared/reseller hosting user (i.e. low user privileges).
It’s just brilliant. Export backup, import it to the new account and it all works out of the box, right away.
Every file, database, .htaccess setting etc.
Without having to bother provider’s technical support, wait or similar.
Now, I’m a bit weary of using cPanel hosting in the future, since it takes more time to do manual migrations, even when it’s cPanel-to-cPanel.
I consider having backups and being able to move in case of any problems to be of crucial importance.
Hence, in my opinion, this is a huge plus for DirectAdmin.
Hoping to see cPanel pull something similar, or to see some of the highly renowned (and reliable) hosting providers start offering DirectAdmin reseller hosting, in addition, if not instead of cPanel.
P.S.
I understand that a provider can easily do this in cPanel from the WHM, but I can’t do it as a customer.
It’s a lot better being able to do this on one’s own, when it’s most convenient (for live websites with lots of activity).
P.P.S.
For full disclosure, I’ve started using a cPanel provider, for reliability and reputation reasons, hoping to concentrate on making content, instead of doing migrations.
But it’s been a tough call, for the reason discussed in this post.