Webmin Virtual Private Servers

If you are a professional system administrator and you can find your way around PERL programming then there’s no need for you to pay extra for control panel interfaces that are built to make everything seemed easy! Webmin virtual private servers are for the well-experienced in making command prompts as everything is done starting from the command line.

Virtual Private Servers also called Virtual Dedicated Servers (VDS) is a cheaper alternative to having your very own dedicated server. The dedicated server is subdivided among its VPS users so each VPS users get a fraction of the disk space, RAM, and processor speed of the dedicated server with the capabilities of operating on its own dedicated machine. Webmin virtual private server is the choice of experienced webmasters and system administrators who doesn’t need to be spoon-fed by simplified and costlier control panels.

With Webmin VPS, you are given the choice of which operating system to use. It is compatible with CentOS, redhat, Fedora, Debian and open SUSE. With webmin VPS, you will have an online control panel where you could change your operating system or reinstall it.


How to Use Webmin?

With webmin VPS, you would be provided the URL to your webmin control panel. Both the administrator and the users could log in through this URL but only the administrator or “admin” is given full access to all of its key features.

Once you’re logged in to your webmin vps control panel, at the top of the window you will find a row of images with links to sections of your webmin control panel. These sections are called “Webmin”, “System”, “Servers”, “Networking”, “Hardware”, “Cluster”, and “Others”.

• Webmin
  
  In this section you will have the access to Webmin, Usermin and the Webmin user configurations, modules configurations and viewing activity logs.
  
  
  
• System
  
  On the System section you will find the tools to use in configuring the different aspects of your VPS server. You can configure system files, users and groups.
  
  
  
• Servers
  
  In this section, you can manage the different services like Apache Web server, Sendmail, MySQL or PostgreSQL databases, and ProFTPD server that you are running on your system. Configurations to these services should only be handled with great familiarity to their systems.
  
  
  
• Networking
  
  This is the section where you can configure your networking options.
  
  
  
• Hardware
  
  The hardware section is for configuring physical devices such as storage devices and printers. The LVM tool or Logical Volume Management tool helps you manage the dynamic volumes on your system visually.
  
  
  
• Cluster
  
  This is the section where you will find the tools to use for clustering systems. With clustering, you might need to install packages that are not included on your Linux distribution.
  
  
  
• Others
  
  In this section you will find other miscellaneous utilities. You will find special tools in this section such as File Manager, system monitoring tools, Upload and Download tools, Unix shell programs, SSH/Telnet Login and Perl Modules.
  

Generally, the Webmin virtual private servers contain everything that experienced site administrators and webmasters need with nothing extra.