My Connection to files.directadmin.com is slow Last Modified: Apr 21, 2010, 3:02 pm
If your installs of DA are downloading files slowly from the files.directadmin.com server, you can use one of our mirrors instead.

The current list of mirrored files server is as follows:

files.directadmin.com – USA main server
files2.directadmin.com – USA
files3.directadmin.com – USA
files5.directadmin.com – Turkey
files6.directadmin.com – Netherland
To use one of these backups, take the IP of that server, and add it into your /etc/hosts file.

For example, to use files6, you’d run

[root@server ~]# dig files6.directadmin.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> files6.directadmin.com +nocomments
;; global options: printcmd
;files6.directadmin.com. IN A
files6.directadmin.com. 14062 IN A 81.26.221.44
directadmin.com. 14294 IN NS ns1.jbmc-software.com.
directadmin.com. 14294 IN NS ns2.jbmc-software.com.
taking note that it resolves to 81.26.221.44.

Then add the following into your /etc/hosts file:

files.directadmin.com 81.26.221.44
which will override the dns lookup, and make files.directadmin.com resolve to the files6 mirror.