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-====== Jargon & Reference Index ======
-This page defines terms, acronyms, and shorthand used throughout the wiki.
-==== Infrastructure / Virtualisation ====
-  * '''Xen''' — Older paravirtualisation hypervisor. Being migrated to KVM. Xen config files live in ''xm/'' and ''xmconfig/''.
-  * '''KVM''' — Kernel-based Virtual Machine. The newer hypervisor replacing Xen. Uses QEMU for userland emulation.
-  * '''QEMU''' — Virtual machine emulator. Used with KVM for userland VM management. Firmware files in ''ovmf/'' (UEFI).
-  * '''OVMF''' — Open Virtual Machine Firmware. UEFI firmware for KVM VMs.
-  * '''netns''' — Linux network namespaces. Used to isolate network stacks per VPS guest.
-  * '''IPMI''' — Intelligent Platform Management Interface. Out-of-band hardware management for physical hosts.
-  * '''NDP''' — Neighbour Discovery Protocol. IPv6 equivalent of ARP.
-  * '''BIRD''' — Dynamic routing daemon (BGP/OSPF). Used in the dynamic-routing project.
-  * '''EBGP''' — External Border Gateway Protocol. Used for provider peering on compute hosts.
-==== Compute Host ====
-  * '''HostDaemon''' — Main .NET daemon running on each compute host. Receives commands from the web API and manages VPS lifecycle (start/stop/migrate/network).
-  * '''qemu-network/mammothvps.sh''' — Shell script that applies iptables firewall rules to compute hosts using ''claim_lock'' to serialise changes across all guests on a host.
-  * '''routed''' — Routing daemon on compute hosts that manages BGP peering and routes.
-  * '''smtbalance''' — SMTP load balancer that distributes email traffic across mail servers.
-  * '''xm/''' — Xen configuration tools (older platform, being phased out).
-  * '''xm-for-kvm/''' — Xen-to-KVM migration tooling.
-==== Application / Codebase ====
-  * '''MonoRail''' — Mono's MVC web framework. Used by ClassicPanel (legacy WebForms panel).
-  * '''Castle''' — Castle Project framework. The original .NET framework the VPS was built on top of. Castle Core, Facilities, Components.
-  * '''ASP.NET Core''' — Modern .NET web framework. Used for the new AdminSite and WebApi.
-  * '''NHibernate (NH)''' — Object-relational mapper used in the .NET stack.
-  * '''Log4Net''' — Logging framework used throughout the .NET codebase.
-  * '''MammothVps''' — Namespace/project for the Mammoth-specific VPS code.
-  * '''Vmbuilder''' — Tool for building VM disk images.
-==== Operations / Internal Tools ====
-  * '''Butler''' — Internal bot (project 50). Used for automation and team communication.
-  * '''Tron''' — Job scheduler for internal ops tasks.
-  * '''Morbo''' — Service health check application (.NET).
-  * '''Ansible''' — Infrastructure automation. Playbooks in ''ops/ansible/''.
-  * '''Icinga''' — Monitoring system.
-  * '''CICD''' — Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment pipeline configuration.
-==== Business / Platform ====
-  * '''VPS''' — Virtual Private Server. The core product.
-  * '''Mpay''' — Payment processing system (project 9). Handles billing, card updates.
-  * '''Dynamic_RS''' — Dynamic reservation logic (project 61). Manages resource reservation.
-  * '''Bootstrap''' — Host provisioning system (project 34).
-  * '''Backup / BackupProxy''' — Backup host programs and download proxy.
-  * '''Looking-Glass''' — Network diagnostic tool for customers (BGP/traceroute).
-  * '''Router''' — Router configurations and scripts (project 31).
-  * '''GBMT''' — Game/BM tooling (infrastructure/gbmt/).
-  * '''Neigh-Proxy''' — NDP/ARP proxy for VMs (infrastructure/neigh-proxy/).
-  * '''Isobuilder''' — ISO/image builder for host provisioning.
-==== Architecture Patterns ====
-  * '''CQRS''' — Command Query Responsibility Segregation. Used for separating read/write paths.
-  * '''REST API''' — WebApi project exposes REST endpoints.
-  * '''SPA''' — Single Page Application (frontend).
-  * '''Docker''' — Containerisation used in some ops tooling.
-  * '''Kubernetes (K8s)''' — Orchestration for GitLab runner agents.
-==== Naming Conventions ====
-  * '''vps/*''' — GitLab namespace for all first-party VPS software.
-  * '''product/''' — Customer-facing code in the main monorepo.
-  * '''facility/''' — Per-datacentre satellite services.
-  * '''infrastructure/''' — Physical device / host-level software.
-  * '''ops/''' — Internal operations tooling.