I have a vps with directadmin and some servers with cPanel.
I need migrate the emails of a client (only 1 client) in the directadmin server to the cPanel Server.
The problem:
The directadmin use mbox format email, and cPanel use Maildir format email.
(Note: The converter not work exactly for my issue).
We are running RHEL 4 servers using sendmail, qpopper and UW Imap. Right now we are using the old mbox format for user mail and now we are suffering from inefficiency.
Has anybody gone through the conversion process when there are a LOT of existing accounts and we want to avoid service interruptions.
For an ISP/webhost style email setup, what is better, mbox or maildir? Everyone seems to recommend maildir, but the issue I'm thinking of is if people decide to store their mail on server it will eventually run out of inodes, and I'm sure reading 1 single file is much faster then reading thousands,
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow would it be possible for a cpanel system to "convert" from maildir back to mbox without direct intention / invention?
The story
1) Mail (with mailscanner - maildir) works fine for months - Exim failed and don't want to restart
2) Contact support company - Fixed and restarted exim
3) No email for 30 hours - Techs checked, tested, removed mailscanner and confirmed everything works fine
4) Found the problem myself - Email system still on maildir but exim delivered mail to INBOX folder instead than the maildir folders so I fixed it by running the maildir conversion to move the mail in inbox to the correct maildir folders.
5) The server support company insist that THEY did not break the system and everything working fine etc but I am sure that I am correct.
a) Stopped to receive any email direct after their tech fixed the exim issue. (After I did the conversion I got over 400 emails, the first of them the email from them that said exim is now fixed and restarted)
b) They created test email account and confirmed with tests that everything works fine but I think that the newly created email account would be a MBOX account and thus working fine while the rest of the email accounts on the server would still be maildir accounts and thus not receiving any emails until I ran the conversion script.
I am no server admin or tech so I cannot say what error would turn mailbox back to mbox hence the question above.
(Important - It worries me a bit as to why exim failed in the first place and while the first mail I received from the techs sort of "proof" that something they did caused the backwards conversion it's also possible that something else such as an automatic update caused this - Since exim failed I would not receive any mail at all, and after the tech restarted exim their email would be the first to land in the inbox instead of maildir folders)
Maybe worthwhile to investigate the reason why exim failed and what caused the turn from maildir to mbox because I think it would then be a global cpanel issue.
I'm really enjoying all the helpful topics that this website has to offer . However, I've still been having trouble deciding on a web host.
I'm planning to make a website that will consist of all different forms of media, (video, audio, photos) and I wanted to know if there were any web hosts out there that specialize in that sort of thing?
Also, I wanted to know if Wordpress was a good choice for someone like me who doesn't have a whole lot of website building skill but wants to make a decent looking site.
I'm trying to decide what panel to get, I've used cPanel and DirectAdmin before so trying to figure out which is best suited for me.
Obviously cPanel has more features but uses more ram. Do I really need all the features of cPanel or can I get by using DirectAdmin?
The server I'm going to get will have 8GB RAM so does it matter that cPanel uses more memory because there is so much ram anyway?
If you were looking for a web host, which control panel do you want?
cPanel or DirectAdmin?
I know most will choose cPanel, but I want to find out how many choose DA and how many choose cPanel.
i am swtiching the hosting package from company A to company B. Company A is using directadmin and company B using cpanel.
How can i transfer all my mail to cpanel?
On average, how much memory does cpanel use when compared to a standard directadmin setup?
I've never had a chance to use directadmin before, but I've been reading quite a bit about it around the web and that it uses much less memory than cpanel.
Anyone used both? Which is better for VPS hosting?
I have been using cPanel for long and some custom panels like DreamHost and Site5 provide.
I have seen DirectAdmin a couple of times but never used it. Now my question is that:
Why we should we use cPanel instead of DirectAdmin, when:
* DA is cheaper than cPanel.
* People says DA support is better.
* DA have nearly all features cPanel have.
* DA looks prettier than cPanel.
I could be able to state more if I have been using DA.
Now, please list your REAL world reason to not use DA but cPanel. Lets keep it on topic.
My reason, as of now, is:
* Transferring site from cPanel to cPanel is easier than cPanel to DA.
I really need at least 10 reasons for not choosing DA.
Been having problems with 2 specific sites on a server, this is one of the domains i'm having issues with.
I went under edit a dns zone and viewed the DNS of some of my domains and some of them have DNS I have not added before. This is also happening when I create new accounts on Cpanel.
for example, on one of the domains I added, it shows the DNS as "ns45.domaincontrol.com" under edit a DNS zone. These are not my DNS servers nor did I add those. What would be causing this?
Also getting this error when I try to change anything.
Edit DNS Zone
Modifying Zone aqscleanair.com
/tmp/cpanel.TMP.z0rrkh4clSQa7eqg:13: warning: ns2.,databeyond.com.aqscleanair.com: bad name (check-names)
zone aqscleanair.com/IN: loaded serial 2008010404
OK
Bind reloading on borg using rndc zone: [aqscleanair.com]
Warning: deprecated mbox still in use. Please switch to maildir soon.
Reconfiguring Local Mail: This server will serve as the primary mail exchanger for aqscleanair.com's mail.
I have 465 emails in .mbox format:
1180056800.000448.mbox_2,S
and inside:
Quote:
Return-Path: <<removed>>
From: <<removed>>
To: <email-address@gmail.com>
Subject: the subject- disregard
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:16:05 -0500
Message-ID: <CCBC5E16-6FEC-49DB-AEF6-3B9131F688C3@verizon.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3)
Thread-Index: Acci4VFHa4z1GsINTFy0kBgEiy1OFA==
X-OlkEid: 3E245E20C77FC375020B624294176339C7BA73C1
Status: RO
X-Status:
X-Keywords:
X-UID: 453
Sorry - user error!
I didn't get that the screen wasn't going to say anything. Followed
directions again. WOrked just fine.
While adding an addon domain I received this message below:
Quote:
Warning: deprecated mbox still in use. Please switch to maildir soon. Warning: deprecated mbox still in use. Please switch to maildir soon.
I have a direct admin server and I am planning to take backup of all the accounts in my DA server to my friend server. This is just for safety precautions.
My friend server is Cpanel.
I wanted a move 1 accounts from cPanel to DirectAdmin server platform. I know it has to be done manually. But this one account has 800MB.
So the question is:
Is it possible to tar public_html while keeping every permission & folder ownership at it's correct setting?
(Sql is not a problem for me)
I have heard that Direct Admin is much faster then cpanel & require much less resources then cpanel... I was just wondering if I get vps with 128 ram with Direct admin on it, would it be better than vps with 256 ram with cpanel installed... I am running 3 websites with almost 10 to 20 users at a time (at max 50).... I like both cpanel & directadmin but was thinking if 128 ram with DirectAdmin can give more speed on 128 then I won't spend more money on 256 with cpanel... If anybody have an opinion then please put it here...
View 14 Replies View Relatedlike know the difference mainly between cpanel and directadmin;
So is important that the host have all the plans :
one with cpanel and one with directadmin (if have plesk and others is also better but not fundamental )
Is important also to have server in europe ;
For your experience are both stable the panels and which are the principal difference?
Does anyone know if is it possible? If yes, how could I do this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a reseller account that is hosted at ns1 / ns2.mydomain.com and it is configured via cPanel / WHM and is accessed by mydomain.com
I recently purchased a dedicated server and would like the dedicated server to have a ns3 / ns4.mydomain.com I also would like that the dedicated server be accessed by another domain (other than mydomain.com). Is this possible?
If that is not possible, what way is a good way of doing this?
I receive my server tha preinstall diectadmin. May I know is it possible I remove the directmin adn install the cpanel without format the drive?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to transfer (migrate) an account from cPanel to DirectAdmin?
And the other way, DirectAdmin -> Cpanel?
Has anyone done this or currently running this setup? to try it with my directadmin server first but havent found very good documentation or howtos. Ive looked the last week or so and havent really found anything helpful. So if anyone is running such a setup Id like to know how you did it and how much better if any it is.
View 0 Replies View RelatedI'm new to using directadmin and I've got a problem; I've not yet switched the DNS over to the directadmin server 'cause I want to make sure the sites work first, however I can't find how to view the sites. With cpanel you can go to http://192.168.1.1/~username (where 192.168.1.1 = IP of server and username is username of account).
is this possible with directadmin? I can't find anything about it, anywhere.
My understanding is that if I join a webhosting company that operates the cPanel web control panel then my Outlook Express email program would get configured automatically.
However if the webhosting company were to be using DirectAdmin web control panel would I get the same benefit in this respect please?
VPS package and I have the choice between LxAdmin, cPanel, Webmin, and DirectAdmin.
I'm used to cPanel, so that's my comfort zone, but it costs extra.
I'm leaning towards DirectAdmin because I liked the demo site.
what the other webheads here might think.
Recently I stumbled along a host on here with a good rep and that uses direct admin.
Because they were very nice on the live support I signed up to see what direct admin was like.
Its very diferent from cpanel. Some parts seem to be harder to use like the phpmyadmin requires the username and password to the database you created not the control panel username and password like cpanel. Although I guess that could be a good security feature just in case some one gets into the control panel they can not get into the phpmyadmin, then again if they are smart and were able to get into the control panel they could get into ftp and look what the username and password is on the config file for the script you are using.
The bandwidth meter seems to be better in direct admin although I think its acting up for me as its putting yesterdays bandwidth on todays. I was told by the host that it updates every 2 hours and at first it did but now its gone to every day. Oh and unlike cpanel this bandwidth meter includes bandwith used by the control panel.
Niether one from what I can tell counts sftp though at least for the hosts I have right now.
I am receiving errors while executing domainname.com/cgi-bin/folder/filename.cgi files in directadmin. The error is Internal server error.
I have tried the below things,
./script.cgi : no errors found
checked domain log : got premature end of script headers
checked suexec log : No errors
Checked the permission : all the files and folders under cgi-bin is 755
Where is the location of my.cnf?
I've got directadmin on this server, however I can't seem to find the mysql config file.
I've checked /etc for it, but it doesn't seem to be there?
i just sign up a directadmin vps package, this is the direct admin that i saw once i login, is quite different from the direct admin that i normally saw, is this normal?
when i check with the support, they just tell me nothing is wrong and ask me if i wan they will just rebuild the vps, any one that using direct admin vps using this kind of interface?
Quite simple - does anybody know of any Directadmin resellers?
Me (and my customers) are used to directadmin so that is the control panel I would like to use on my servers. However not all hosts offer directadmin, and that means I would have to get it from directadmin.com myself.
The main 'issue' with this is pricing. Single licenses cost $29 per month. While a reseller can get the same license for a one-time fee of $49. That means turning a profit in 1.5 months when going that way instead of single licenses.
Does anybody know of a way to buy these one-time licenses? I am aware of the fact that they do not include support, that is fine.