Directadmin is a panel like Cpanel and is cheap for personal use 24$/year. It support softaculous as well so managing Wordpress is easy. You can even install OLS with a simple build command. Free SSL and many more features are there. So it will be a very cost effective panel for your project.I don't know what is "direct admin", until nowI only used cpanel to install addin+wordpress+cloudflare+ssl and everything related to wordpress websites. It seems an easy way to manage everything