Important DirectAdmin License Changes – Unified Pro Pack Features for All Modern Licenses

1. Unifying DirectAdmin and Pro Pack Features

Over recent years, the popularity of licenses with Pro Pack has grown significantly, while legacy licenses have seen a major decline. To simplify licensing and unify the feature set, DirectAdmin has discontinued all legacy licenses.

Sales of all legacy licenses (without Pro Pack) ended on August 1, 2023.

The following licenses remain available for purchase:

• Personal PLUS
• Lite
• Standard

Benefits of this change:

• Unified codebase for faster development
• Cleaner and more efficient documentation
• Easier 3rd‑party development (plugins, modules, tutorials)

2. Retail Personal Licensing

New orders for the retail Personal license are no longer accepted as of August 1, 2023.

Existing licenses will continue to function as long as the payment subscription remains active. If billing fails or is canceled, the license is permanently forfeited and cannot be reactivated.

A legacy codebase flag will appear in the control panel to clarify why certain features are unavailable for Personal licenses.

3. Datacenter (Internal) Licensing

New orders for datacenter licenses also ended on August 1, 2023.

Existing datacenter licenses will continue to function at the same price, provided the subscription remains active.

Expired licenses due to failed billing are permanently forfeited.

These licenses will also display a legacy codebase flag in the control panel.

4. Support Extensions

New orders for Support Extensions are no longer accepted as of August 1, 2023.

Existing holders may continue renewing their support extension or have their license upgraded to a modern license type without a price increase.

Failed billing results in permanent loss of renewal ability.

5. Pro Pack Features

As of August 2023, DirectAdmin uses a unified codebase, and all licenses for sale include full Pro Pack features. Key features include:

• Python/Java/Ruby/Perl/NodeJS support via Nginx Unit
• Per‑user Redis manager
• Advanced Nginx features (automatic CMS templates, WordPress + FastCGI cache)
• Per‑user resource throttling (CPU/RAM/IO)
• Advanced Admin SSL management
• Email Track & Trace, Email Summary
• Web Terminal
• GIT Manager
• ClamAV filesystem scanner
• WordPress Manager
• IMAP Sync
• Automatic email configuration detection for Thunderbird
• MariaDB 10.11, 11.4, 11.8 and MySQL 8.4 support
• DB Monitor
• File System Information (disk/partition details)
• Automatic security.txt support
• Support for Ubuntu 24, Debian 13, RHEL 10
• System Packages feature
• Isolated PHP‑FPM mode

Upcoming Features:

• Advanced backup manager with per‑file and per‑database restore
• DNS synchronization with external providers (e.g., Cloudflare)

6. How to Enable Pro Pack Features

After upgrading your license, simply restart DirectAdmin:

systemctl restart directadmin

Install Nginx Unit:

da build set unit yes
da build unit

Install Redis:

da build set redis yes
da build redis

Install WordPress Manager:

da build wp

Install IMAP Sync:

da build imapsync

Install Git:

# Debian/Ubuntu
apt-get -y install git

# RHEL/CentOS
yum -y install git

If running CloudLinux:

cagefsctl --addrpm git
cagefsctl --force-update

7. Feature Does Not Appear in the Panel

If a feature is missing, ensure it is enabled at all required access levels:

• Enable for the user (Admin Level → Account Manager → Show All Users → Modify)
• Enable for the reseller who owns the user
• In rare cases, enable for the admin’s reseller level