DirectAdmin Reseller Platform
DirectAdmin reseller hosting: a lighter load, a fatter margin
DirectAdmin is fast, frugal and cheaper to license. Brand it as your own, load it with clients, and keep a bigger share of every payment that comes in.
$14.99
Entry tier, billed yearly
Feather-light
How much server the panel consumes
Up to 500
Client accounts supported
White-label
Shipped under your name
Built Light
Trimmed down, still flat out
Other panels swallow server resources. DirectAdmin barely shows up on the graph. Pages open instantly, and whatever the panel leaves alone goes to the websites you are being paid to host, which is a difference every one of your customers can feel.
- A quick panel with a tiny footprint
- Snappy for you and for every client
- An uncluttered screen, nothing wasted
- Extra headroom kept for the sites
Pricing
DirectAdmin reseller tiers, priced straight
Pick a resource pool and get moving. Your branding and the license ride along on every tier — nothing extra to purchase.
Reseller 1
Everything you need to get your own hosting brand moving
$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 get WHM; each client gets their own 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
- No setup fee — get going with zero upfront cost
- 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
- Humans on support 24/7 — for you and your clients
Reseller 2
Built for a client base that's picking up speed
$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
- You get WHM; each client gets their own 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
- No setup fee — get going with zero upfront cost
- 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
- Humans on support 24/7 — for you and your clients
Reseller 3
Reselling at agency scale, with capacity 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
- You get WHM; each client gets their own 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
- No setup fee — get going with zero upfront cost
- 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
- Humans on support 24/7 — for you and your clients
Why DirectAdmin
Costs less to supply, better for margins
A panel that never drags
Lean design went into DirectAdmin at the very start. Screens snap open, nothing is squandered, and the panel keeps its pace for you and for your clients even on a day when the server is under real strain.
A lighter license cost underneath
A slimmer panel licenses for less money, and that saving goes straight into what the plan costs. Whatever gap it opens up belongs to your margin.
Your identity on every screen
Apply private nameservers and your own branding, and customers only ever deal with your company. We never get a look-in, and neither do the people who make the panel.
Reseller controls that pull their weight
Build packages, put caps on resources, suspend or upgrade an account, and follow every customer from one brisk reseller dashboard.
One pool, hundreds of clients
Take on however many customer accounts your resource pool will drive, and with overselling switched on, each gigabyte pulls extra duty.
SSL on every site, automatically
Free SSL covers every client site under your reseller account, and it renews itself. That is one question your customers will never have to ask you.
What It Costs You
Pay less for the platform, keep the difference
Whatever a lighter licence saves ends up with you rather than with us. Costs here are a lean monthly base plus a small fee per client, so they only accelerate once revenue already has. Each sale then leaves more room to price on your own terms.
- A lighter license, a lower base rate
- $0.40 a month per active client
- Idle accounts never touch the bill
- Margins you can forecast up front
Your Brand
Your name on the first click and the last invoice
Aim the nameservers, add the branding, and the product reads as yours throughout. Ordering, signing in, managing a site: customers do all of it under your company name, while the hardware and the panel vendor stay entirely out of view.
- ns1.yourbrand.com-style nameservers
- Your logo, your company, your colors
- Packages and rates authored by you
- No screen ever mentions us
Built For Resellers
All the tools the operation actually needs
Build packages, watch client usage and stay in command from one rapid dashboard.
A single fast dashboard
Packages, users and resource caps all live on one reseller screen, built for speed instead of decoration.
Accounts spun up in seconds
Adding a client takes moments. Whatever packages you built and whatever prices you attached are sitting there, already loaded.
NVMe beneath everything
Underneath the reseller accounts is NVMe SSD storage. Sites you host come up fast, and search rankings tend to reward exactly that.
Getting Started
Three steps and you are trading
- 1
Choose a tier
Take the NVMe storage and bandwidth pool that fits the client list you have right now. Moving up later costs you no downtime whatsoever.
- 2
Put your name on it
Aim private nameservers here and upload your logo, so the login screen and everything past it reads as your company.
- 3
Open the throttle
Design your own packages, price them however you want, bring client accounts on board and collect the money monthly.
What's Included
Standard equipment across every single tier
One list, identical across the whole DirectAdmin range.
- DirectAdmin, the lightweight panel
- Reseller dashboard in your branding
- Private nameservers included
- Overselling active from day one
- Space for up to 500 client accounts
- Per-client resource caps, set by you
- Free SSL across all hosted sites
- NVMe SSD storage throughout
- Setup free of charge
- Round-the-clock human support
The machines are ours. The business is yours.
Hardware, network, uptime and the DirectAdmin license sit on our side of the line, day and night — your hours stay free for selling and supporting clients.
View The PlansBuilt For
Who builds on DirectAdmin
Designers & agencies
Sell quick, branded hosting alongside the build, and one-off fees turn into income arriving every month.
Freelancers
A single lightweight panel carries your whole client list, and the only name on it is yours.
New hosting brands
Ship a keenly priced hosting product without buying hardware, and without paying for a licence yourself.
Speed Under The Hood
Lean panel on rapid storage
Put a lean panel on quick hardware and you win twice over. Reseller accounts sit on NVMe storage, which means the sites you sell load in a blink, post strong Core Web Vitals, and give your customers nothing much to grumble about.
- Every account backed by NVMe SSDs
- Quicker client sites that rank better
- Free SSL renewing on autopilot
- Overselling that stretches the pool
FAQ
Straight answers on DirectAdmin reselling
What am I actually getting with a DirectAdmin reseller plan?
A DirectAdmin reseller panel you use to create and run hosting accounts for customers of your own. Packages are yours to design, rates yours to set, and every sale stays with you. The servers underneath remain our problem.
Why does DirectAdmin come in cheaper than the bigger panels?
Two reasons. It asks less of the hardware, and the licence itself costs less. That efficiency is what lets these tiers carry a lower price while staying every bit as quick for you and the people buying from you.
Can my branding cover the whole service from end to end?
Yes. Set the private nameservers, add the logo, and from that point one company name is visible to customers: yours. Ours stays hidden. So does the panel vendor.
Does anything cap the number of clients I can host here?
The resource pool is the only limit, and overselling pushes that limit further out. Nothing in the plan caps accounts by number, so sign people up as quickly as you manage to win them.
Will I need to buy a DirectAdmin licence of my own?
No. The licence comes inside every reseller tier at no extra cost, which leaves nothing separate for you to order, install or renew each year.
What happens when my client list outgrows the tier I bought?
More storage or bandwidth needed? Take the bigger tier. Accounts you already built come along exactly as they are, and nobody has to run a migration.
Make a start on the lighter panel.
A lower license cost, branding that belongs to you alone, and the DirectAdmin license already built into the price.
Get Started FastDirectAdmin covers the same ground as the heavyweight panels while carrying less server load and a smaller licence fee. Both savings land straight in your margin. Your client account sits on NVMe drives with LiteSpeed caching and a 99.9% uptime SLA our monitoring desk is held to.
It suits resellers watching every licence dollar, and the essentials come fitted rather than upsold: free SSL on every domain, migration handled by our team, daily backups, and support on call at any hour.
Less panel weight, less licence cost
DirectAdmin's reseller level provides packages, quotas, suspensions and DNS, and clients get a snappy interface with file management, databases, mail and one-click installs. It draws far less from the server than the big panels, leaving more of the machine for the sites themselves.
The hardware carries the load: 100% NVMe storage, LiteSpeed over HTTP/2, and a 99.9% uptime SLA our monitoring desk stands behind. Fast pages keep visitors and search engines happy alike.
The real source of the saving
No second price lurks in year two. The listed rate is the invoiced rate, this term and every term after, and any intro offer shows its renewal figure alongside. Reseller plans come with a 7-day money-back window; one message inside it is all it takes.
Panel licensing is one of reselling's hidden overheads. DirectAdmin's runs cheaper, we never add a markup line for it, and the plan price absorbs it — so doubling your clients does not double your costs.
How we run DirectAdmin
DirectAdmin sits on the identical NVMe and LiteSpeed platform as the rest of our range, in our London datacentre with edge DDoS filtering and daily backups. Light panel, serious hardware underneath.
We never wait for a customer to flag an outage. Fleet monitoring runs minute by minute and wakes an engineer first, so what usually reaches you is the fix, not 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 tiny footprint hands more CPU and memory to 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 number lives in the SLA, not just the marketing, and our monitoring desk is accountable for it.
A panel that gets out of your way
Day-to-day tools sit two clicks deep at most, and none are locked behind a bigger tier.
Scale up without relocating
A larger plan is a single confirmation away, and you pay only the difference from switch day.
Free to leave any time
Standard panels and standard backups make leaving easy whenever you choose. Most customers never do.
Getting Going
Three short steps to get running
- 1
Order in minutes
Choose your reseller tier on accounts and disk, not on the panel.
- 2
Wire the domain
Define packages and nameservers inside DirectAdmin.
- 3
Start serving traffic
Provision clients on the spot, or we migrate the ones already on your books.
In Every Plan
Comes with the plan, no surcharge
- Reseller plans backed by 7-day money-back
- Plan price includes the panel licence
- A lean panel frees more server for client sites
- One-click installer covering 240+ apps
- Accounts provisioned minutes after checkout
- Upgrade tiers without your files going anywhere
- UK-registered company, pricing in US dollars
- Shaped around resellers watching every licence dollar
Still Curious
Questions that keep coming up
Can cPanel-habituated clients adjust to DirectAdmin?
Most settle in within minutes — the layout is cleaner and the everyday jobs (files, databases, mail, installers) sit on the front screen. Prefer to skip retraining entirely? Our cPanel reseller plans are available too, and we shift accounts between the two panels free.
What is the setup time for DirectAdmin reseller hosting?
The panel login reaches you within minutes. If your client account currently lives elsewhere, we copy it across first, test everything, and only then repoint the DNS.
Does DirectAdmin reseller hosting come with SSL?
Nothing to pay. Certificates install automatically and re-issue themselves comfortably ahead of expiry.
What if DirectAdmin reseller hosting does not work out for me?
There is a 7-day money-back window. Request it within those seven days and the payment returns the way it arrived — no survey, no retention pitch.
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