Terry Frazier
New Member
I've been using a KH VPS for a full five years now. Can't believe it's been that long. I'm not a strong SysAdmin/CLI user and, typically, need help with stuff that more knowledgeable admins do with ease. Some people would probably say I don't have any business running a VPS, but KH support has pretty much always been able to help me out. I have always used cPanel, but a month ago I migrated to DA to save the $6/mo or whatever. I also figured it would be lighter on resources, which is always good.
I read the comparison docs beforehand, but really wasn't prepared for the switch. Like any wholesale change in UI, I didn't know what I didn't know. For me, the biggest changes have been in three areas:
- Switching from cPanel Accounts to DA Reseller/User management
- Adapting to DA File Manager
- Adapting to Let's Encrypt SSL
The first two are really learning curve issues. After 15-20 years of cPanel, I was suddenly on the steep end of the learning curve again. But I'll get past it. The Let's Encrypt thing is a little more problematic. cPanel AutoSSL seemed much smoother and more robust. After the migration there needed to be changes in directadmin.conf, something about Mail SNI needed to be enabled. I didn't know about either of those things, but support took care of them.
I'm still struggling a bit with getting proper certificates everywhere I need them - still getting bad certificate errors on subdomains and such. I want to prevent any unencrypted connections on any domain at any time and I haven't quite figured out how to do this. It's probably another learning curve issue that I'll resolve eventually, but it has been a bit of a nuisance.
Even with some of my struggles I think I would make the switch again. I would just try to be more prepared.
I read the comparison docs beforehand, but really wasn't prepared for the switch. Like any wholesale change in UI, I didn't know what I didn't know. For me, the biggest changes have been in three areas:
- Switching from cPanel Accounts to DA Reseller/User management
- Adapting to DA File Manager
- Adapting to Let's Encrypt SSL
The first two are really learning curve issues. After 15-20 years of cPanel, I was suddenly on the steep end of the learning curve again. But I'll get past it. The Let's Encrypt thing is a little more problematic. cPanel AutoSSL seemed much smoother and more robust. After the migration there needed to be changes in directadmin.conf, something about Mail SNI needed to be enabled. I didn't know about either of those things, but support took care of them.
I'm still struggling a bit with getting proper certificates everywhere I need them - still getting bad certificate errors on subdomains and such. I want to prevent any unencrypted connections on any domain at any time and I haven't quite figured out how to do this. It's probably another learning curve issue that I'll resolve eventually, but it has been a bit of a nuisance.
Even with some of my struggles I think I would make the switch again. I would just try to be more prepared.
