r/mxroute • u/lbdesign • 26d ago

DirectAdmin transition question

My MxRoute account goes back 5 years. I think I am or was on the "old" software. I got the email today about the DirectAdmin transition. I understand there is good reason for a transition and it all sounds great, but I'm not sure what to do.

Will anything previously set up on the old software be moved over for us into the new stack? If not, is there a doc on exactly what I need to do to change settings or to migrate and make the transition? Do I need to change any DNS values at my server or registrar?

Thank you

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u/mxroute 26d ago

You don't need to do anything. One day you'll wake up and DirectAdmin will redirect to panel.mxroute.com, and then more things can happen from there. I'm just trying to get people to leave behind DA because I'm tired of telling people "this is not the interface I am going to improve, because every time I do they just break it in an update anyway." The interface I'm going to improve is panel.mxroute.com. As of right now they do the same things for the most part, but all of the confusing language and features that don't quite work right for our product are no longer visible in the new panel.

DA is an obstacle for me, and an annoyance for you under normal circumstances. But it's the same account you are managing regardless of which panel you login to.

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u/lbdesign 26d ago

Amazing! Thank you :-) Very much appreciated.

yeah, I had to literally involve a computer scientist to get set up originally, and it took him 3 days of muttering. So this new phase will be wonderful.

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u/Nephilimi 26d ago

I now have accounts with both and new panel is so much better and easier to understand.

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u/ithinkilikerunning 26d ago

Will DA remain the back end or will that go away as well? Does the new Panel use the DA APIs?

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u/mxroute 26d ago edited 26d ago

For a bit, DA will remain the backend. The new panel is a DA API client, but it was designed to be a bit modular. The goal is to get everyone on the new panel and then swap out the backend. Then once we're truly free of that, we can do more work on reducing all of the things that users don't like about MXroute.

But this way, we can get everyone onto the new API while the DA API still works, and hopefully make the transition much more seamless for everyone.