About Virtualmin

Virtualmin is a uniquely powerful and flexible web server administration tool. It is unmatched in features and ease of use. Based on Webmin, it offers a wide array of productivity-enhancing tools for hosting providers, web developers, web designers, and end users.

Virtualmin is Mobile

Imagine enjoying dinner at your favorite restaurant (I'm picturing a great little Thai place in downtown Austin), surrounded by friends. You get a phone call from your CEO...the website has been down for an hour, where are you!? Ah, that's no fun at all.

We can help. With Virtualmin, you'll know about problems before your customers, because it'll send you an SMS message when problems arise. And, Virtualmin is fully accessible via any web-enabled mobile device, so you can actually fix things without leaving the table. Restart services, check logs, or create a new mailbox, all from a simple menu-based UI. All before the food gets cold.

Virtualmin is Comprehensive

Most folks are content to sell you a halfway solution. One that addresses a few aspects of your server, and leaves the rest wholly unanswered. We're not like that. We wrote Webmin. You may have heard of it. It's the world's most popular web-based system administration tool and has millions of users world-wide. We know how to manage your server. Not just a couple of bits and pieces of it. We manage network settings, firewalls, PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, users and groups, startup services, system logs, directory services, filesystems, quotas, software packages, name service and redundancy, mail, spam and anti-virus, and much more. You'll find new uses for our products every day.

Virtualmin is Polite

There's a right way and a wrong way to build system administration tools. The right way is hard. It requires writing parsers for every configuration file that the system administers. Parsers that understand comments and respect file order. The right way allows you to edit configuration files by hand, if you prefer. It also allows you to use other tools, if they work the right way. We've chosen the right way. Our competitors have not. We don't blame them...it's very tempting to take the easy path. Luckily for you, we've made doing things the right way easy.

Virtualmin is Easy

It's no secret that the right tools can provide a boost to productivity. Virtualmin provides tools to boost your productivity in ways that are unavailable anywhere else. Installing new applications, like blogs, wikis, content management systems, and more, is just a couple of clicks in Virtualmin. Managing databases, users, logs, and mail services are made nearly automatic, and we don't do it at the expense of flexibility.

Virtualmin is Flexible

Most management products want you to work their way, forcing you to learn all of the ins and outs of their particular design decisions. Virtualmin works for you, not the other way around. While we have selected a few sensible defaults that suit most users most of the time, it's easy to change just about everything in a Virtualmin system. Don't like Postfix? Switch to Sendmail or qmail. Don't like ProFTPd? Try vsftpd, instead. Don't like local users? Switch to LDAP. We're serious about respecting your decisions, and so we use the default package manager for software updates, whenever possible. We locate files in the places you expect them to be, no matter what Operating System you run.