<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nVirtualmin is built on top of Webmin, a web-based system administration tool for Linux & Unix servers. With this said Virtualmin could run virtually on any UNIX-based operating system. To get a better understanding of the whole Virtualmin\/Webmin combination, I think it\u2019s safe to make the following analogy and see Webmin as the WHM part intended for system administrators and Virtualmin as cPanel itself dedicated to the end-users, the website owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To make the installation process, Virtualmin offers a simple installation script that can be run in a simple one-liner:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
curl -o virtualmin -L http:\/\/software.virtualmin.com\/gpl\/scripts\/install.sh && sh virtualmin<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nOnce the installation is done, you can log in to your Virtualmin administration where you\u2019re greeted by a setup wizard. Then in a couple of steps, you will configure your installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is needless to say that Virtualmin offers almost everything that cPanel has to offer: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Web Server manager based on LAMP or LEMP (Linux, Nginx MySQL\/MariaDB, PHP). Similarly to cPanel, offers support for multiple PHP versions.
- Multi-domain \/ domain alias support<\/li>
- DNS and IP management<\/li>
- File managers<\/li>
- Full control over SSL with auto SSL capability from several providers <\/li>
- Redirection manager <\/li>
- FTP & SSH support <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- Database management, with the option to choose between MySQL\/MariaDB and PostgreSQL<\/li>
- Email server with all extended functionality as forwarders, autoresponders, alias, spam, and antivirus scanning, all merged with the ability to have web-based email clients such as Roundcube or Horde<\/li>
- User management, giving you the ability to control various access levels <\/li>
- Security <\/li>
- Alerts, Graphs, and Log management<\/li>
- Various backup options including cloud integration<\/li>
- Script installation<\/li>
- CLI & remote API\u2019s <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Overall it has all features to fulfill all needs of modern-day web hosting owners and system administrators. By itself, Virtualmin comes very well balanced. And once you get used to its UI it is relatively easy to manage your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the pros in the Virtualmin are in its modular design, meaning you can change particular components of the whole stack with minimal effort. For example, Virtualmin comes with a LAMP stack, but as we\u2019re all crazy about web performance, we tend to use Nginx as our web server of choice. All you need to do is to install Nginx and Webmin-Virtualmin-Nginx plugin. And that\u2019s it! Virtualmin is so versatile that you can have one hosting plan running on Apache and others on Nginx, on the same node, assuming both web servers don\u2019t overlap in their port usage. The same goes for PHP versions. And it can handle multiple versions of PHP in FCGId or PHP-FPM mode, depending on your preference. Since it relies solely on the OS packages, as soon PHP releases new versions, you can install your latest version right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In combination with Webmin, it gives the website owners and administrators greater control over all segments of the web hosting stack. But for this part, you will need to know what you are doing. Or at least know how to configure Virtualmin system backups! \ud83d\ude42 This will give you the ability to recover if you end up messing up your configuration very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n