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DirectAdmin reseller hosting — lighter panel, and a wider margin for you

DirectAdmin is quick, undemanding and cheaper to license. Put your name on it, fill it with clients, and keep more of what each one pays you.

$14.99

First tier, billed annually

Feather-light

What the panel demands from a server

Up to 500

Client accounts you can open

White-label

Sold under your name

Someone running a hosting account from the cPanel dashboard

Light On Resources

Less weight, same speed

Where other panels drink, DirectAdmin sips. Screens open promptly, and whatever the panel leaves alone stays free for the websites you actually get paid to host. Everyone downstream of you feels the difference straight away.

  • A fast panel that asks little of the server
  • Quick for you and quick for every client
  • A clean screen with nothing spare on it
  • More headroom left for the sites themselves

Pricing

DirectAdmin reseller tiers, priced plainly

Choose a resource pool and start selling. Every tier carries your branding and the license, with nothing extra to buy.

Reseller 1

Everything you need to put your own hosting brand out on the counter

$14.99/mo

$179.88 today · billed annually

the renewal price is the same · + $0.40 per active user

NVMe storage
30 GB
Bandwidth
300 GB
Overselling
Enabled
Client accounts
100
  • WHM sits with you, while each client gets their own cPanel
  • Run private nameservers under your own brand
  • Overselling is switched on from the start
  • You set the limits each client account gets
  • Free SSL on every site you host
  • We charge no setup fee, so nothing is due before launch
  • Build the packages and name them yourself
  • Daily backups across every client account
  • Imunify360 on guard on every client site
  • NVMe SSD underneath, LiteSpeed cache in front
  • Softaculous in every account you create
  • Ready to wire into WHMCS billing
  • Real people answer, for you and for them
Contact us to order
Best seller

Reseller 2

For a client list that keeps getting longer

$29.99/mo

$359.88 today · billed annually

the renewal price is the same · + $0.40 per active user

NVMe storage
60 GB
Bandwidth
600 GB
Overselling
Enabled
Client accounts
250
  • You work in WHM; every client gets a cPanel of their own
  • Run private nameservers under your own brand
  • Overselling is switched on from the start
  • You set the limits each client account gets
  • Free SSL on every site you host
  • Nothing to pay up front, because setup carries no fee
  • Build the packages and name them yourself
  • Daily backups across every client account
  • Imunify360 on guard on every client site
  • NVMe SSD underneath, LiteSpeed cache in front
  • Softaculous in every account you create
  • Ready to wire into WHMCS billing
  • Real people answer, for you and for them
Contact us to order

Reseller 3

Reselling at agency scale, with enough stock behind it

$59.99/mo

$719.88 today · billed annually

the renewal price is the same · + $0.40 per active user

NVMe storage
100 GB
Bandwidth
1.5 TB
Overselling
Enabled
Client accounts
500
  • You keep WHM, and each client is handed their own cPanel
  • Run private nameservers under your own brand
  • Overselling is switched on from the start
  • You set the limits each client account gets
  • Free SSL on every site you host
  • Setup costs you nothing, so there is no bill before you begin
  • Build the packages and name them yourself
  • Daily backups across every client account
  • Imunify360 on guard on every client site
  • NVMe SSD underneath, LiteSpeed cache in front
  • Softaculous in every account you create
  • Ready to wire into WHMCS billing
  • Real people answer, for you and for them
Contact us to order

Why DirectAdmin

Cheaper cost of goods, better margin

A hosting seller at a laptop, working through the lightweight DirectAdmin dashboard

A panel that keeps out of the way

Lean from its very first line of code, DirectAdmin wastes little. Screens load quickly. Even on a busy server the panel stays responsive, for you and for the clients you sell to.

A smaller license bill underneath

Licensing a trimmer panel costs less, and that saving lands on the shelf price instead of in our pocket. Your margin ends up wider because of it.

Every screen under your name

Put private nameservers and your own branding in place and the customer meets your company alone. Not us. Not, for that matter, the firm that wrote the panel.

Reseller tools that earn their keep

One tidy reseller dashboard lets you build packages, cap resources, pause or upgrade an account, and keep watch over every customer.

Hundreds of customers, one pool

Overselling is switched on, so every gigabyte works harder and you can sign up as many customer accounts as the pool will bear.

A certificate on every site

Free SSL, renewing itself, goes on each client site under your reseller account. That is one fewer thing your customers ever need to ask you about.

Two hands shaking on the 30-day money-back guarantee

What It Costs You

Buy the stock cheaper, and keep the difference

Whatever a lighter licence saves goes to you, not into our accounts. What you pay is a low monthly base plus a small fee for each active client, so outgoings climb only as the takings climb. Every sale therefore leaves more room to price it exactly your way.

  • A smaller license means a smaller base price
  • $0.40 for each live client account
  • Empty accounts cost you nothing at all
  • A margin you can quote with confidence
A business owner running a reseller hosting operation from a laptop

Your Brand

Your name on the sign and on the receipt

Once the nameservers point here and the branding is on, the whole operation reads as yours. Customers order under your company name, log in under it, run their sites under it. Hardware and panel maker both stay firmly behind the curtain.

  • Nameservers like ns1.yourbrand.com
  • Your logo and your company name
  • Packages and prices you write yourself
  • Nothing on screen points back to us

Built For Resellers

The kit you need to run the counter

Write packages, keep an eye on clients and stay in charge from one quick dashboard.

Tools for managing client accounts inside a reseller hosting dashboard

One tidy dashboard

One reseller screen holds packages, users and resource caps, and it was built for speed rather than decoration.

A new account in seconds

A client can be set up in moments, since your own packages and prices are already on the shelf waiting for them.

NVMe under the whole lot

NVMe SSD storage sits under every reseller account, which means the sites you host load fast and score well for it.

Getting Started

Trading in three steps

Setting the private nameservers and a logo on a DirectAdmin reseller account
  1. 1

    Pick a reseller tier

    Take whichever NVMe storage and bandwidth pool suits the client list in front of you today. Stepping up a tier later on costs nothing in downtime.

  2. 2

    Brand DirectAdmin

    Point the private nameservers, drop your logo in, and everything from the login screen downwards reads as your company and nobody else's.

  3. 3

    Start selling

    Write the packages yourself, set the prices yourself, sign up client accounts, and money starts arriving every month.

What's Included

What every tier carries

The same list applies right across the DirectAdmin range.

  • The feather-light DirectAdmin panel
  • A reseller dashboard branded as yours
  • Private nameservers
  • Overselling switched on
  • Up to 500 client accounts
  • A resource cap you set per client
  • Free SSL on every site you host
  • NVMe SSD storage
  • Nothing charged to set up
  • Support from real people, any hour
A long aisle of servers inside a global data centre network

We look after the servers. You look after the customers.

Hardware, network, uptime and the DirectAdmin license are ours to worry about, day and night. Your hours go into selling and supporting.

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Built For

Who sells on DirectAdmin

A freelance designer running branded hosting accounts for a set of clients

Designers & agencies

Sell quick, branded hosting alongside the build, and a one-off project fee becomes a monthly one.

Freelancers

One light panel holds every client, and it carries nobody's name except yours.

New hosting brands

Launch a keenly priced hosting product without buying a server, and without buying a licence either.

An NVMe solid-state drive photographed close up, the part that shortens page loads

Speed Under The Hood

Light panel, quick drives

Put a light panel on quick hardware and you get both halves of the bargain. NVMe storage carries the reseller accounts, so the sites you sell open promptly, score well on Core Web Vitals, and hand your customers nothing to complain about.

  • NVMe SSD storage behind every account
  • Faster client sites, and better rankings for them
  • Free SSL that renews without a reminder
  • Overselling to make the pool go further

FAQ

DirectAdmin reselling, answered

What exactly does a DirectAdmin reseller plan get me?

A DirectAdmin reseller panel, which you use to build and run hosting accounts for customers of your own. You write the packages, you write the price tags, you keep the sale. The servers underneath remain our job.

Why does DirectAdmin cost less to run than the bigger panels?

Less is asked of the machine, and the licence fee is smaller. That efficiency is precisely what lets us mark these tiers lower, and nothing feels slower for you or for the people you sell to.

Can the whole thing carry my branding?

It can. With private nameservers and a logo of your own, the only company name a customer ever reads is yours. Ours stays hidden. So does the panel maker's.

How many clients am I allowed to take on?

However many the resource pool will carry, and overselling is on to stretch that further still. No per-account ceiling is written into the plan anywhere, so sign people up as quickly as you can find them.

Must I go and buy a DirectAdmin licence of my own?

No. Every reseller tier already carries the licence at no extra charge, which leaves nothing separate for you to buy, install or renew each year.

What do I do when the client list outgrows my tier?

The moment you want more storage or bandwidth, move up to a larger reseller tier. Client accounts you have already built travel with you exactly as they stand. Nothing needs migrating at all, and nothing breaks.

Begin selling on the lighter panel today.

A smaller license bill, branding that is entirely yours, and the DirectAdmin license already in the price.

Start Reselling

DirectAdmin does the same job as the heavier panels with less weight on the server and less cost on the licence. Both of those turn up in your margin. Underneath your client account sit NVMe drives, LiteSpeed caching and a 99.9% uptime SLA that our monitoring desk is measured against.

It suits resellers keeping an eye on licence costs, and the useful parts are on the shelf rather than behind an upsell: free SSL on every domain, the migration done by our team, backups taken daily, and support you can reach at any hour.

A lighter panel and a lighter licence

Reseller level in DirectAdmin gives you packages, quotas, suspensions and DNS, while clients get a quick interface with file management, databases, mail and one-click installs. It leans on the server far less than the heavyweight panels, which leaves more of the machine for the sites themselves.

The hardware does the heavy lifting: 100% NVMe storage, LiteSpeed serving over HTTP/2, and a 99.9% uptime SLA our monitoring desk answers for. Quick pages keep visitors and search engines equally content.

Where the saving actually comes from

There is no second price waiting in year two. What the tag says is what the invoice says, this term and the next, and any introductory rate carries its renewal figure beside it. Reseller plans carry a 7-day money-back window, and asking inside it is all it takes.

Panel licensing is one of the quiet costs of reselling. DirectAdmin's is lower, we do not mark it up on a separate line, and the plan price carries it — so doubling your client list does not double your overheads.

A business owner running a reseller hosting operation from a laptop

DirectAdmin on our hardware

DirectAdmin runs on the same NVMe and LiteSpeed platform as everything else we sell, in our London datacentre with edge DDoS filtering and daily backups. The panel is light; the hardware underneath is not.

Nobody here waits for a customer to report an outage. Monitoring watches the fleet minute by minute and wakes an engineer first, so you usually hear about the fix rather than the fault.

  • DirectAdmin reseller level with full package control
  • Lower licence overhead than the heavy panels
  • Conditioned power and more than one network path
  • Hardware we own, maintain and replace

Worth Knowing

What else you get in the box

Less panel, more server

DirectAdmin's small footprint leaves more CPU and memory for the client sites you actually sell.

Renewal-safe pricing

What you pay this year is what you pay the next. That is the whole policy.

99.9% uptime, in writing

The uptime figure sits in the SLA rather than in the marketing, and the monitoring desk answers for it.

A panel that makes sense

Everything you need day to day is two clicks away, and none of it is hidden behind a higher tier.

Move up without moving out

Bigger plans are one confirmation away, and you only pay the difference from the day you switch.

Nothing holding you here

Standard backups and standard panels mean you can leave whenever you like. Most people simply do not.

Starting Out

From order to live in three steps

  1. 1

    Order in two minutes

    Pick the reseller tier by accounts and disk rather than by panel.

  2. 2

    Set the domain

    Set your packages and nameservers inside DirectAdmin.

  3. 3

    Start serving

    Provision clients instantly, or let us migrate the ones you already look after.

On the Shelf

Also included, no extra charge

  • 7-day money-back window on reseller plans
  • Panel licence carried in the plan price
  • A light panel leaves more machine for client sites
  • 240+ applications on the one-click installer
  • Account live within minutes of checkout
  • Move up a tier without moving your files
  • Registered in the UK, priced in US dollars
  • Built for resellers keeping an eye on licence costs

Still Asking

Other questions that keep coming up

Will clients used to cPanel find their way around DirectAdmin?

Most manage it in a few minutes — the layout is simpler and the common jobs (files, databases, mail, installers) sit on the first screen. If you would rather not retrain anyone, our cPanel reseller plans are on the shelf too, and we move accounts between the two for free.

How long does setting up DirectAdmin reseller hosting take?

You will be logging into the panel within minutes. If your client account lives somewhere else today, we copy it here first, test it, and only then move the DNS.

Is SSL included with DirectAdmin reseller hosting?

No charge. The certificate is fitted automatically and reissues itself well before it expires.

What if DirectAdmin reseller hosting is not the right fit?

You have a 7-day money-back window. Ask inside those seven days and the money goes back the way it came — no questionnaire, and no pitch about staying.

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