DirectAdmin WordPress Manager and wp-cli: Site Control
Using DirectAdmin's built-in WordPress Manager for installs, updates and staging alongside wp-cli from the shell, including the hook points added in 1.687 that let automation react to each install.
September 29, 2026
DirectAdmin Rspamd vs SpamAssassin: DKIM and DMARC Setup
How to choose between Rspamd and SpamAssassin on a DirectAdmin mail server, switch between them with CustomBuild, and set up DKIM signing, SPF and DMARC records so that outbound mail from hosted domains authenticates correctly.
September 29, 2026
DirectAdmin External Account Binding: Paid CA Setup in 1.711+
How to connect DirectAdmin's built-in ACME client to a commercial certificate authority using External Account Binding credentials, which providers to expect, how to hide the ones you do not sell, and how to confirm certificates are coming from the paid account.
September 29, 2026
CustomBuild PHP Versions: Switch PHP and Add Extensions Safely
How DirectAdmin's four PHP slots work, how to build PHP 8.2 to 8.5 with CustomBuild, and how to add extensions such as pcntl, pdo_pgsql, mailparse and the ionCube loader without hand-editing configure scripts that the next rebuild will overwrite.
September 29, 2026
DirectAdmin ModSecurity: Secure OWASP CRS Setup
How to turn on ModSecurity 3 through CustomBuild with the OWASP Core Rule Set or the Comodo ruleset, where the rules and audit log live, and how to write per-domain exclusions so one false positive does not mean disabling the firewall for everyone.
September 29, 2026
DirectAdmin DNS Clustering: Reliable Multi-Server Setup
How DirectAdmin's Multi Server Setup pushes DNS zones between servers, blocks duplicate usernames and domains across a fleet, and what to check in named and firewall configuration before relying on it for redundant nameservers.
September 29, 2026
DirectAdmin ACME TLS Migration (1.706+): Safe Step-by-Step Plan
What DirectAdmin's ACME-driven TLS system introduced in 1.706 changes compared with the old letsencrypt.sh flow, how the migration task added in 1.708 moves existing domains across, and the settings and failure modes to check afterwards.
September 29, 2026
DirectAdmin External Mail: Google Workspace and M365 Without Problems
How to point a DirectAdmin-hosted domain's mail at Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 so that both inbound delivery and mail sent from the website's PHP land in the external mailbox, and how the forced MX DNS check introduced in 1.703 changes the behaviour.
September 29, 2026
Mitigating Copy Fail, Dirty Frag and the DirectAdmin 1.711 TLS privilege escalation
Applying the kernel-side mitigations for the 2026 Copy Fail, Dirty Frag and Fragnesia local privilege escalations on DirectAdmin servers, updating to 1.711 for the TLS system fix, and verifying that each mitigation is actually in force.
September 29, 2026
DirectAdmin Roundcube Branding: Custom Webmail URL
Pointing webmail.example.com and the panel's webmail link at Roundcube 1.7 on DirectAdmin, keeping custom config and logos safe from CustomBuild rebuilds, and using the one-click webmail login added in 1.688.
September 29, 2026
DirectAdmin da CLI: update, build, config-set and More
A practical reference for DirectAdmin's da command-line tool, covering panel updates and release channels, the CustomBuild wrapper, reading and changing directadmin.conf safely, user administration from the shell, and what changed in recent releases.
September 29, 2026
DirectAdmin Backups S3: Reliable Admin, Reseller and User Backups
How DirectAdmin's three backup levels differ, how to schedule admin backups to a remote FTP or S3 target, where the archives live, and how to restore a single account or a whole server from them without overwriting the wrong data.
September 29, 2026