DirectAdmin Reseller Platform
DirectAdmin reseller hosting: lighter panel, wider margin
DirectAdmin is quick, frugal and cheaper to licence. Put your name on it, load it with clients, and keep a larger share of every payment that arrives.
$14.99
Entry tier, billed yearly
Feather-light
How little of a machine it occupies
Up to 500
Client accounts supported
White-label
Shipped under your name
Built Light
Trimmed right down, and still quick
Other panels take a serious bite out of a machine. DirectAdmin hardly registers at all. Pages open the instant you click, and whatever the panel leaves untouched goes to the websites you are paid to host, which is a difference every one of your customers will notice.
- A quick panel with a small footprint
- Responsive for you and every client
- An uncluttered screen, nothing wasted
- The spare headroom kept for the sites
Pricing
DirectAdmin reseller tiers, priced plainly
Pick a resource pool and get moving. Your branding and the licence ride along on every tier — nothing further to buy.
Reseller 1
Everything you need to put a hosting brand of your own into business
$14.99/mo
$179.88 today · billed annually
the price never jumps at renewal · + $0.40 per active user
- NVMe storage
- 30 GB
- Bandwidth
- 300 GB
- Overselling
- Enabled
- Client accounts
- 100
- You hold WHM; each client gets a cPanel of their own
- Private nameservers carrying your brand, not ours
- Overselling enabled from day one
- Define per-client resource limits yourself
- Every site you host gets free SSL
- Setup costs nothing, so there is no bill before day one
- Build and name your own hosting packages
- Daily backups across every client account
- Imunify360 shielding every client site
- NVMe SSD storage behind a LiteSpeed cache
- Softaculous in every account you create
- Ready to wire straight into WHMCS billing
- Real people staff the help desk at any hour, for your clients as well as you.
Reseller 2
Built for a client list that has begun to fill up
$29.99/mo
$359.88 today · billed annually
the price never jumps at renewal · + $0.40 per active user
- NVMe storage
- 60 GB
- Bandwidth
- 600 GB
- Overselling
- Enabled
- Client accounts
- 250
- WHM sits with you, and every client has a separate cPanel
- Private nameservers carrying your brand, not ours
- Overselling enabled from day one
- Define per-client resource limits yourself
- Every site you host gets free SSL
- Nothing to pay for setup, so you owe us nothing up front
- Build and name your own hosting packages
- Daily backups across every client account
- Imunify360 shielding every client site
- NVMe SSD storage behind a LiteSpeed cache
- Softaculous in every account you create
- Ready to wire straight into WHMCS billing
- Whatever the hour, someone is answering tickets: yours, and the ones your customers raise.
Reseller 3
Agency-scale reselling, and there is still headroom in reserve
$59.99/mo
$719.88 today · billed annually
the price never jumps at renewal · + $0.40 per active user
- NVMe storage
- 100 GB
- Bandwidth
- 1.5 TB
- Overselling
- Enabled
- Client accounts
- 500
- One WHM account for you, one cPanel per customer
- Private nameservers carrying your brand, not ours
- Overselling enabled from day one
- Define per-client resource limits yourself
- Every site you host gets free SSL
- There is no setup fee, so nothing falls due before you begin
- Build and name your own hosting packages
- Daily backups across every client account
- Imunify360 shielding every client site
- NVMe SSD storage behind a LiteSpeed cache
- Softaculous in every account you create
- Ready to wire straight into WHMCS billing
- Support runs day and night, and your customers reach the same desk that you do.
Why DirectAdmin
Costs less to supply, kinder on margins
A panel that never drags
Lean from its first day, that is how DirectAdmin was built. Screens open the instant you ask, nothing goes to waste, and the panel keeps its speed for you and for your clients even while the machine is under load.
A lighter licence cost underneath
Licensing a lighter panel costs less, and the whole saving drops straight into the price of the plan. What sits in that gap afterwards is your margin.
Your identity on every screen
With private nameservers and your own branding in place, customers deal with your company and no other. We do not appear, and neither do the panel's makers.
Reseller controls that earn their keep
Define packages, cap resources, suspend or upgrade accounts, and keep tabs on every customer from a single reseller dashboard.
One pool, hundreds of clients
Take on as many customer accounts as the resource pool can carry. Overselling is switched on, so every gigabyte pulls extra duty.
SSL on every site, automatically
Under your reseller account, every client site carries a free SSL certificate that reissues on its own. Your customers never have to raise the question.
What It Costs You
Pay less for the platform, keep what is left over
A lighter licence saves money, and that money lands with you rather than with us. Since the base is a lean monthly figure with a small per-client fee on top, your costs only rise once the revenue has risen first, and each sale leaves more room to price on your own terms.
- A lighter licence, a lower base rate
- $0.40 a month per active client
- Dormant accounts never reach the bill
- Margins you can work out up front
Your Brand
Your name, from that first click through to the last invoice
Aim the nameservers here, put your branding on, and end to end the product belongs to you. Customers order, sign in and run their sites beneath your company name, while the hardware and the panel vendor stay right out of sight.
- ns1.yourbrand.com-style nameservers
- Your mark, your company, your colours
- Packages and rates written by you
- No screen ever mentions us
Built For Resellers
Everything you need for running the operation
Build packages, watch client usage and stay in command from one quick dashboard.
One quick dashboard
Packages, users and resource caps live on one reseller screen, built for work rather than ornament.
Accounts opened in seconds
Take a client aboard within moments, the packages and rates you set already sitting there waiting for them.
NVMe beneath everything
NVMe SSD storage carries every reseller account, which is why the hosted sites load quickly and rank better for it.
Getting Started
Up and trading after three steps
- 1
Choose a tier
Pick the NVMe storage and bandwidth pool that fits the client list you have today. Stepping up later costs you not one minute of downtime.
- 2
Put your name on it
Aim private nameservers our way and upload your mark, so that from the login screen onward everything reads as your company.
- 3
Open the throttle
Put your own packages together, price them however you wish, sign client accounts aboard, and draw income each month.
What's Included
Included as standard on every tier
One list, identical across the whole DirectAdmin range.
- DirectAdmin, the lightweight panel
- A reseller dashboard in your branding
- Private nameservers included
- Overselling active from day one
- Room for up to 500 client accounts
- Per-client resource caps, set by you
- Free SSL across all hosted sites
- NVMe SSD storage throughout
- Set-up free of charge
- Round-the-clock human support
The machines are ours. The business is yours.
Hardware, network, uptime and the DirectAdmin licence sit on our side of the line, day and night — your hours stay free for selling to and supporting clients.
View The PlansBuilt For
Who builds on DirectAdmin
Designers & agencies
Package quick, branded hosting alongside the build itself, turning one-off fees into income every month.
Freelancers
Your entire client list sits in one lightweight panel, with no name on it except yours.
New hosting brands
Bring a keenly priced hosting product to market without owning either a server or a licence.
Speed Underneath
Lean panel, quick storage beneath it
Put a lean panel together with quick hardware and you win on both fronts. Reseller accounts sit on NVMe storage, so the sites you sell load without delay, post strong Core Web Vitals, and give your customers nothing to grumble about.
- Every account backed by NVMe SSDs
- Quicker client sites that rank better
- Free SSL reissuing unattended
- Overselling that stretches the pool
FAQ
Straight answers on reselling DirectAdmin
What exactly do I get from a DirectAdmin reseller plan here?
You get a DirectAdmin reseller panel, used to open and run hosting accounts for customers of your own. The packages are yours to design, the rates yours to set, and every sale stays yours. The machines underneath remain our responsibility.
How does DirectAdmin come in under the larger panels on cost?
It demands less of the hardware, and the licence itself carries a smaller fee. That efficiency is what lets these tiers sit at a lower price while staying every bit as quick for you and for the people you sell to.
Can my branding run right across the whole service?
Yes. Once private nameservers and your mark are in place, the only company name customers ever see is yours. Ours never surfaces, and nor does the panel vendor's.
Is there any ceiling on the number of clients I can host?
Only whatever your resource pool can carry, and overselling stretches that further still. No cap on the account count exists anywhere in the plan, so bring customers on as fast as you can win them.
Do I have to buy my own DirectAdmin licence?
No. The licence is already folded into every reseller tier at no added cost, which leaves nothing separate to order, install or renew each year.
What if the client list outgrows the tier?
Shift to a larger tier the moment more storage or bandwidth is wanted. Every account you have already created travels with you untouched, and no migration is needed.
Make a start on the lighter panel.
A lower licence cost, branding that belongs to you alone, and the DirectAdmin licence already inside the price.
Get Started FastDirectAdmin covers the same ground as the heavyweight panels on less server load and a smaller licence fee. Both savings go straight into your margin. Your client account sits on NVMe drives with LiteSpeed caching and a 99.9% uptime SLA our monitoring desk answers for.
It suits resellers counting every licence dollar, and the essentials are fitted rather than upsold: a free certificate on every domain, a migration run by our team, nightly backups, and support reachable at any hour.
Less panel weight, less licence cost
DirectAdmin's reseller level gives you packages, quotas, suspensions and DNS, and clients get a brisk interface with file management, databases, mail and one-click installs. It draws far less from the server than the larger panels, which leaves more of the machine for the sites themselves.
The hardware carries the weight: 100% NVMe storage, LiteSpeed over HTTP/2, and a 99.9% uptime SLA our monitoring desk stands behind. Quick pages please visitors and search engines equally.
The real source of the saving
No second price waits in year two. The listed rate is the invoiced rate, this term and every term after, and any opening offer shows its renewal figure beside it. Reseller plans carry a 7-day money-back window, and one message inside it is enough.
Panel licensing is one of reselling's quiet overheads. DirectAdmin's costs less, we add no markup line for it, and the plan price absorbs it, so doubling the client list does not double the cost.
How we run DirectAdmin
DirectAdmin runs on the same NVMe and LiteSpeed platform as the rest of our range, in our London datacentre with DDoS filtering at the edge and nightly backups. A light panel with serious hardware beneath it.
We do not wait for a customer to report an outage. Fleet monitoring runs minute by minute and wakes an engineer first, so what usually reaches you is the fix rather than the fault.
- Full package control at DirectAdmin reseller level
- Licence overhead below the heavyweight panels
- Redundant network paths and conditioned power
- We own, service and replace the hardware
Good to Know
More that's built in
Lean panel, extra horsepower
DirectAdmin's small footprint leaves more CPU and memory for the client sites you are actually selling.
No renewal surprises
This year's bill equals next year's bill. That is the entire policy.
99.9% uptime, under SLA
The figure is in the SLA rather than only the marketing, and our monitoring desk answers for it.
A panel that stays out of the way
Everyday tools are two clicks deep at most, and none of them is held back for a bigger tier.
Scale up without relocating
A larger plan is one confirmation away, and you pay only the difference from the day you switch.
Free to leave any time
Standard panels and standard backups make leaving simple whenever you choose. Most customers never do.
Getting Going
Getting going takes three steps
- 1
Order in minutes
Pick a reseller tier on accounts and disk rather than on the panel.
- 2
Wire the domain
Define packages and nameservers inside DirectAdmin.
- 3
Start serving traffic
Set clients up on the spot, or we move the ones already on your books.
In Every Plan
Thrown in without an extra charge
- Reseller plans backed by 7-day money-back
- Plan price includes the panel licence
- A lean panel leaves more of the server for client sites
- One-click installer covering 240+ apps
- Accounts provisioned minutes after checkout
- Upgrade tiers without your files going anywhere
- Canadian-registered company, pricing in US dollars
- Shaped around resellers counting every licence dollar
Still Curious
Questions that keep coming up
Can cPanel-habituated clients adjust to DirectAdmin?
Most are at home within minutes: the layout is cleaner and the everyday jobs, files, databases, mail and installers, sit on the front screen. Would rather skip retraining altogether? Our cPanel reseller plans are there too, and we move accounts between the two panels free.
How soon can DirectAdmin reseller hosting be running?
The panel login reaches you within minutes. If the client account currently lives elsewhere, we copy it across first, test it, and only then repoint the DNS.
Does DirectAdmin reseller hosting come with SSL?
Nothing at all. Certificates install themselves and re-issue comfortably before they expire.
What if DirectAdmin reseller hosting does not suit me after all?
There is a 7-day money-back window. Ask inside those seven days and the payment goes back the way it came, with no survey and no retention pitch.
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