🆚 DirectAdmin vs. Plesk
- 📈 Plesk is much more popular than DirectAdmin.
- 🌍 Plesk is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ DirectAdmin is particularly popular in the Netherlands.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PleskType
Server management software
Server management software
About
DirectAdmin is a graphical graphical web-based control panel for 
Linux servers.
Plesk is a web hosting control panel for Linux and 
Windows servers that allows users to manage websites, domains, email, and databases from a centralized interface.
It provides tools for domain and DNS management, mail servers with spam protection, database administration, file management, scheduled backups, and built-in security features such as a web application firewall and brute-force protection.
Headquarters
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Pricing
Free version ❌
Personal Plus (20 domains)$5/month
Lite (50 domains)$15/month
Standard (unlimited domains)$29/month
Free version ❌Free 2-week trial
Web Admin (10 domains)$15.5/month
Web Pro (30 domains)$23.5/month
Web Host (unlimited domains)$67/month
Categories
Server Management › Rank #8
Server Management › Rank #1
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Plesk server management software is 129 times more popular than DirectAdmin.
Total websites
Market share
Server Management
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Plesk is more popular than DirectAdmin in all countries.
Germany
Spain
United States
Netherlands
Italy
United Kingdom
France
Turkey
Japan
Greece
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the Server Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Server Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Poland in the Server Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belgium in the Server Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Thailand in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Server Management category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Plesk is more popular than DirectAdmin in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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cPanel🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.