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Hosting & DirectAdmin

Control panel, files, PHP, and everyday hosting tasks.

DirectAdmin is the control panel behind your hosting account — file manager, databases, email, DNS records, PHP settings and cron jobs all live here. These articles cover the tasks people actually need in their first few weeks.

If you have used cPanel before, everything you know transfers; the layout differs but the concepts are identical. If you have not used a control panel at all, start with accessing DirectAdmin and the file manager, then move on to installing an application through Softaculous rather than uploading files by hand.

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How to Access DirectAdmin

Where to find your DirectAdmin login link and credentials.
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Uploading Files via FTP

Connecting an FTP client to your hosting account and where to upload files.
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Changing Your PHP Version

Switching PHP versions for a domain in DirectAdmin, and why it sometimes matters.
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Installing WordPress via Softaculous

Quick-reference steps for installing WordPress through the Softaculous app installer.
Not meaningfully. Both expose the same concepts — file manager, databases, email, DNS, cron — with different layouts. Anyone who has used cPanel will find their way around DirectAdmin within a few minutes, and many people find it less cluttered.
Yes, per domain, from Account Manager → Domain Setup. No ticket required. You can run a legacy application on 7.4 and a new project on 8.3 under the same account.
DirectAdmin generates a full account backup on demand, which you download and keep. Do this monthly. Any platform backups we hold are an operational safeguard for our infrastructure, not a data recovery guarantee — your own copies are the ones that count.