Hi all, Newbie to Virtualmin here, used DA, Pleask and cPanel for years. My question is this:
If I purchase a VirtualMin licence to go pro… Is that all I need to pay for? I need 2 DNS servers and 1 main server hosting the 3 sites. So in total 3 servers need setting up, but not sure what versions I need. I understand Virtualmin will go on the production server and I have to pay to get the DNS clustering function, but is it just 2 free versions of Webmin on the DNS servers just running Bind? I hope that makes sense. the 2 DNS servers are my nameservers.
I have setup multiple clusters in this manner, even going as far as separating MariaDB onto another server and even the Email Stack onto another server. Though this is just for reference in terms of what is possible.
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The Virtualmin server could be one of your DNS servers. DNS is pretty lightweight.
But, yes, what you describe would work fine.
We have documentation for setting up the secondary DNS server. In your case, you’d do it twice (BIND still runs on the Virtualmin server, in this case, but you can firewall it so it’s only accessible to the other DNS servers, if you want…BIND that is only serving the transfers to the other servers will be tiny and use almost no resources).
If you search for “secondary DNS” or even just “DNS” in our docs, you’re going to get the documentation for setting up secondary DNS. This isn’t an obscure topic.
but, that only happens when you specifically qualify the search with “Virtualmin”
when you search with the more vague “secondary DNS” or even vaguer “DNS” you get a more esoteric mix.
