DirectAdmin on 128 plan

[hcgtv]

Hi,

Still researching and was wondering about DirectAdmin.

It seems to be a rather easy way to administer your VPS, for the price it would be a huge time saver over command line tweaking. My OS of choice is Debian Sarge and Webmin for Debian is rather sparse.

Since I'm looking to start on a 128 plan, I figure it should run fine. Just wondering if the resources are needed only when the panel is accessed or is there a daemon running all the time?

On a Debian VPS, do I install the services I want via apt-get and DirectAdmin will just pick them up? How would I know what email and ftp servers work best for a Debian/DirectAdmin combo?

Excuse the questions, just want to make sure of some things first.

Thanks.

[matta]

DirectAdmin does run on Debian. DirectAdmin handles taking care of installing all required software and does install it's own version of a few (Apache/PHP, exim, etc) and does not use stock Debian packages.

The DA daemon is running all the time, but is very lightweight at only 5-6MB used. See the wiki for tuning Apache/MySQL/et al for using less memory.

[hcgtv]

Matt,

Then I'm going to read up a bit more on DirectAdmin, how it interfaces with Debian and the best way to make them both dance together.

I've got 6 domains now, plan on adding 6 more when I move to a VPS. I've used the command line in the past to administer my sites, when they ran on my server, but I'd rather save myself time on the admin end that I can dedicate towards site content.

Thanks.

[hcgtv]

Oh, by the way.

My first server, where I began hosting my sites, it was a 128mb machine.

So when I read the wiki, it brought back memories of what I went through to make the sites run on a low memory machine.

http://nupusi.com/item/72