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Web Hosting and Cloud Computing Control Panels
Howdy,
Virtualmin is a web hosting control panel, and when you create domains with it, those are domains on a shared hosting server.
The term "Virtual Server" is a term we were using here for quite some time -- since before it became popular to mean Virtual Machine,.. and now it's become confusing :-)
Note that it looks like your post here is in the Forums, but also marked as private. That means only the Virtualmin staff can see them, but we don't get any notifications about them or any updates. My recommendation would be to either create public posts in the Forums (where all the Virtualmin community will see it), or private posts using the support tracker (where we'll receive notifications about it).
-Eric
Hi Eric, thanks for the clarifications and feedback.
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Also, as I re-read my post, I realize I may not have fully answered your question.
The term "Virtual Server" is synonymous with "domain".
When you create a Virtual Server, you're simply adding a new domain to your server.
Roughly once a year, we consider changing the term Virtual Server into "domain", but it's been that way so long that's turned into a fairly big decision that we've been dragging our feet on.
-Eric
Very short answer to a long question: Is Virtualmin considered a VPS? NO.
Yes, please change the wording to "domain"... so many more people will start using Virtualmin if you do! : ) (i.e. because of less confusion when they try)
domain might be a little confusing as well (with future thought in mind). How does one differentiate between domains, subdomains, and addon domains for a single user account if its called a "domain"?
Am i right in saying the following are terms all used for these things... apache = vhosts
virtualmin = virtual servers
vestacp = web
cpanel = domains
ispconfig = sites
Centos Web Panel = Accounts (CWP has domains too, but that is not what it seems...its for addon domains as a subdirectory under public_html/ apparently which is even more confusing because am i right in saying that in virtualmin addon domains are outside primary domain public_html?)
perhaps one should go really outrageous and call them "headaches" ^_^
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