DirectAdmin VPS on EC2

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DirectAdmin is a cheap, excellent entry-level web hosting control panel that offers most of the features you can find in cPanel. You’ll need to already own or purchase a new license from DirectAdmin to install our DirectAdmin VPS built and managed on bare-metal Amazon EC2 servers.

HostJane provides a free auto-renewing, SSL certificate matched to the domain or subdomain you provide in checkout.

NB: DirectAdmin can take up to 40 mins to install on any server, so allow time for the server to send you the Admin password after purchase.

Steps	Actions required	Time
	Enter your DirectAdmin license key in the DirectAdmin VPS checkout. Buy a new key from DirectAdmin if you do not own one.	5 mins

After purchase, login to the client area to see your root password and IP address. Amazon assigns a static IP address immediately, but your VPS will not be active until DirectAdmin has finished installing.

40 mins

Point your domain to your hosting. DirectAdmin requires 2 A-Records to be added at your domain registrar: “@” and “Server” in the hostname fields respectively.

1 min

Request Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) port 25 is unblocked. Like most cloud computing services, Amazon blocks outbound traffic on Port 25 on all new EC2 servers. It’s usually a formality to unblock the ports, but we will need to submit your use case to Amazon, so we can assist with that request

2 mins