So, 10 million installs have been done, but only 250,000 are using it now?
Kinda looks like a failure rate, is there a better way to explain whatever you are trying to say?
Yeah, that’s a weird way of putting it. But, over 20+ years, it’s been a lot of installations. I don’t know that we can really say how many, though. We don’t have the logs going back that far. I’ll talk to Ilia about that. I don’t think it’s useful to say how many installs in total, especially since we don’t have an exact number. I don’t think 10M is an unreasonable guess, based on the times when I’ve added up how many in a month. But, I don’t want to make a claim we can’t prove (which also means 250k is too high…we know about 165,000 active installs this month). I know there’s a lot more (because a lot of hosts using Virtualmin have their own private way of installing it, the BSDs don’t use our repos, we know many users install and then never update because people post about ancient versions here pretty regularly, etc.), but I can’t put a number of how many more, so I don’t want to claim it.
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I don’t think numbers are a selling point.
Just say “fastest growing”, “upgrade from your current panel”, “makes hosting easy”, stuff like that.
"Run WordPress at scale "etc. What if I don’t just want wordpress sites? Not for me? Have the Wordpress stuff as a feature “Not only, but also!”
The dark colour etc, just looks like a depressing dreary technical site, not an uplifting marketing experience. Must be for tech heads.
But that’s just me. Someone may like it.
I was just looking at Remotepc.com a product that kind of works but I detest their business practices, but the web site front page is inviting and says what it does. Simple, clean more uplifting.
What is it that you really want?
Who? Me, him or the other one?
“The UI isn’t the priority for everyone. Virtualmin is chosen because it actually works and solves problems. But I appreciate you sharing your perspective.”
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These posts are weird. Seems like an LLM produced them, perhaps?
The weird thing is, you’re posting with a four year old account, before LLM posting on forums was really a thing.
But, I’ll post a reminder that posting LLM output is prohibited and a bannable offense. The LLMs may have wonderful things to say, but if someone wants to read it, they can ask for themselves. We don’t need it here. Please read the forum guidelines: FAQ - Virtualmin Community
We’re all a little susceptible to flattery and there’s plenty of flattery here to go around, but I’m not going to leave up a bunch of machine-generated rambling, no matter how nice it is.
So, I’m removing the rest of your comments, leaving this first one as a place to hang this response.
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Thanks for the quick reply, Joe, and I apologize; I just got a little carried away. Thank you for continuing to develop Virtualmin. I sincerely apologize.
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If it wasn’t machine generated, and just oddly formatted, it’s not a violation of guidelines. I just saw the text wrappped in fancy quotes, and other things that made me think your comments were copy/pasted out of some sort of app.
But, I’m glad you like Virtualmin, and happy to see you posting after four years. 
Anyway, we welcome feedback. Randomz is welcome to express what they like and don’t like.
Thanks to you all, I’ve been able to modify Nginx to my liking. What I like most is that when I make a mistake in the configuration or write bad code, the changes aren’t saved. It’s amazing and wonderful, haha. It took me almost three weeks to enable HTTP/3 in Nginx, and it was incredible. I did feel uncomfortable, though, because many people talk about things without knowing Virtualmin. I’ll wait until my project grows before making a good donation.
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I’ve been using virtualmin/webmin for 20+ years, no idea what I would have done without it, best admin system there is.
Bought Jamie Camerons book. I think end of 2003, that got me started.
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