What is a Limited License?

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What is a Limited License?

Last Modified: Aug 14, 2019, 4:15 pm

A limited license is the same as any other DirectAdmin license type, except that it causes DirectAdmin to have a reduced maximum number of items.
You can see your limits, if any are set, at your Admin Level -> Licenses/Updates page.

For the "Lite" and "Personal" license types, the limits are the number of accounts, and the number of domains allowed on a server.

Account Limit

The account limit is the total sum of all DirectAdmin accounts on the system. This includes all Users, Resellers and Admin accounts. With the default install, the presence of the 1st Admin account constitutes a total of 1 account on the system. Creating a User below that would then be 2 accounts, etc.

Domain Limits

The number of Domains DirectAdmin will count refers to the number of actively used domains on the system for all services. This refers to any Domain or Domain Pointer under at any account's User Level. This does not include stand-alone dns zones, which has no limit (can be used for dns clustering, without limits, regardless of domain limit)

Exceeding your limits

If you've either downgraded your license or somehow ended up with more items than your limit allows, DirectAdmin will go into an over-limit mode, where many core feature are disabled until your remove items to lower your limit.

Disabled features in this over-limit mode GUI:

User Level

Domain Creation
Account Creation
Subdomain Creation
Modify Domain
User Dns Control
MX Records
DNSSEC Control
E-Mail actions
DKIM Controls
Setting Catch-All
Forwarder actions
Vacation actions
Autoresponder actions
Mailing List action
User Databases
FTP account actions
SSL Certificate actions
Create Ticket
View Ticket
close/read Ticket
FileManager: various actions
actions on Protected Directories
Create/Edit Crons
Site Redirection
Restore Site Backup
Rename Domain
SSH Keys
SpamAssassin

Reseller Level

IP Manager actions
Name Servers
Skins page actions
Reseller Backup Crons
Reseller Backup Restore

Admin Level

Create DNS Zone
Add DNS data
IP Manager: Add IP
Admin Backup Crons
Admin Backup Restore
Custom HTTPD actions/view domains
Plugin Manager actions
Multi-Server Setup actions
Move Users between creators

Background Tasks

All Tally types
Cluster Syncs
Backup Crons
Restore any Backup
All LetsEncrypt tasks

Note the list of features disabled when in over-limit mode can change at any time.
The ability to reduce the number of items in the limit will never be disabled, as you're intended to use it to have DirectAdmin return into the normal state.
For most disabled areas, you can usually still delete items. Feature 'actions' refers to a state-change item, often related to a POST.
As you can see, the functionality drops significantly, and we'll likely be adding even more blocks, with the exception of "Now" Backup creation, Account Deletion, and Domain/Pointer Deletion. Everything else is fair game.

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