Glossary¶

Marketplace: A catalog of pre-configured images that launch ready-to-use applications on Cloud VPS servers. The live catalog is available at marketplace.delta.bg.
Image: A disk snapshot containing an operating system and, in most cases, a pre-installed application with default configuration. When a Cloud VPS server is provisioned from an image, it boots into the state the image was prepared in.
Application Stack (or Stack): A set of related software components packaged together in a single image — for example, a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP).
Pre-configured: Installed and set up with sensible defaults at the time the image is built. A pre-configured image starts working immediately after the server boots, without additional installation steps.
Category: A grouping of related applications in the marketplace catalog — for example, Operating Systems, CMS, Databases, Monitoring, or Developer Tools.

Deployment: The process of provisioning a Cloud VPS server from a marketplace image. A deployment includes ordering the service, creating the server, and letting the application inside the image finish its first-boot configuration.
Provisioning: The automated creation and start of a Cloud VPS server after an order is placed. Provisioning typically completes within a few minutes.
Instance: A single Cloud VPS server provisioned from a marketplace image. Each instance is independent and has its own operating system, IP address, and state.

Licensed Image: A marketplace image that requires a paid license for full functionality — currently Windows Server, MikroTik RouterOS, and pfSense Plus. License fees are billed separately from the Cloud VPS subscription where applicable.
Free Image: A marketplace image with no license fee. You pay only for the Cloud VPS resources used to run the server.

Additional Information¶

For more information on how these terms are used in the context of the service, see the relevant sections in the documentation.

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