Core Concepts

A few terms come up throughout these docs:

• Account — a single hosting account: one domain, its files, and its databases.
• Package — a template of limits and features (disk space, bandwidth, PHP versions, allowed features) applied to accounts.
• Reseller — a user who can create and manage their own set of accounts within limits you assign them.
• Node — a physical or virtual server running the TiiPanel agent, enrolled into your control plane. A deployment can run on a single node or many.
• License — the key that activates your control plane installation and determines how many nodes and accounts it can run. See Licensing and your client dashboard.

How they fit together

Your license activates one control plane installation — not an individual server — and sets how many nodes you can enroll and how many accounts you can run across them. The control plane holds your accounts, packages, and reseller assignments centrally, and dispatches provisioning work (creating an account, issuing a certificate, running a backup) to whichever node that account actually lives on. Nodes carry out that work; they don't hold a license or configuration of their own beyond their enrollment token.