Infrastructure Concepts

These terms help you understand the panel. Available settings and actions depend on your installed release, connected infrastructure and host permissions.

Locations

A location is a region or site where your host offers VPSs, such as Frankfurt or Singapore. VPS users choose from the locations their host makes available.

Panel administrators associate the relevant hosts, networks, storage and images with the intended location. A location name alone does not guarantee capacity or support for a particular image or feature.

Providers

A provider is the connection a panel administrator configures to the virtualization service. For Proxmox, see Proxmox Setup.

Only administrators should configure the endpoint, credentials and connection permissions. VPS users do not need access to the provider account or Proxmox panel. Provider inventory is not the same as assigning a VPS to a customer.

Hypervisors

A hypervisor is a host machine that runs virtual machines. Administrators use the available host views to check health, capacity and maintenance status.

VPS users normally select an offered plan and location rather than a physical host. If capacity is unavailable, ask the hosting provider instead of repeatedly submitting creation requests.

Instances

An instance is a VPS assigned to a customer. Its page shows the resources, connection information, status and controls available to that account.

• Confirm that you have opened the correct VPS before changing it.
• Follow ongoing operations through Tasks.
• Use Console Access or SSH where enabled.
• Back up important data before reinstalling, deleting or changing disks.

Panel administrators are responsible for assigning the correct owner and access. VPS users are responsible for their guest operating system, applications and data unless their hosting agreement includes managed services.

Plans

A plan describes the VPS resources offered by a host, such as CPU, memory and disk size. Network allowances and additional-resource limits may also be shown.

For example, a host might offer 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and a 40 GB disk. The actual allowances are those displayed for your service and confirmed by your host. A plan label or limit does not guarantee that an optional action is supported.

Administrators should offer only settings supported by their installed release and infrastructure. Users should ask their host about upgrades and availability; do not assume changing a plan automatically resizes an existing VPS.

Next Steps

Administrators can follow Quick Start to prepare resources and verify a test VPS. VPS users can consult Provisioning or Troubleshooting for help with their service.