What should we call web hosting accounts in Virtualmin?

Howdy all,

We've gotten a bunch of new users over the past couple of years, as the new UI has piqued people's interest in Virtualmin again. That means we've had to revisit our use of terminology in Virtualmin, because folks coming from other control panels are often confused by the language Virtualmin uses. We had this conversation way back in the early days of the project, but the user base was a couple orders of magnitude smaller back then. In particular, where most control panels use the word "Domain" to refer to...well...a bunch of stuff that isn't really related to domain names, Virtualmin uses the term "Virtual Server", which is admittedly also fraught with confusing overlap with other terminology in other areas of hosting and server management (especially since we have a product that manages Virtual Machines and some people call those Virtual Servers, too!).

At this stage I don't actually have an opinion; I'm feeling a bit ambivalent about all of the options.

So, I've made a poll over here to gather your thoughts:

https://www.virtualmin.com/poll/server-vs-domain

Please vote!

Do we stick with what we've always done, or do we fall into line with what (some of) the other control panels do?

Whatever we decide, it won't happen overnight...it'll likely happen sometime during the Virtualmin 6 release cycle (so sometime over the next 12 months). It is cosmetic only, so it won't be something we have to wait for a major release to do, even though it seems far-reaching in terms of how people use and talk about things in Virtualmin.

If you've got opinions on other terminology we should consider changing, feel free to tell us about it, too! If there's some use of language or documentation that confuses you, please let us know. We can't fix what we don't know is broken (and saying, "the documentation for feature X sucks" probably isn't actionable).

Cheers,

Joe