This is a server we use for:

• The Apache NetBeans NetCAT Project review process
• Hosting Apache NetBeans Plugin Portal
• Collecting update center download statistics as explained in  Update Center and Statistics
• Publishing the netbeans-javadoc and maven utilities development javadoc.

Who has access

Any committer may gain user access to the netbeans-vm box.

Apache Infra is limiting root access to some individuals. (IMHO this is a good thing, because system administration is not something you can do among many people).

Ask the dev mailing list for more information on who has root access to the server, in case you need it.

Virtual Web Servers

The netbeans-vm.apache.org hosts different web servers. Some of them (bits.netbeans.org, for instance) are configured using puppet. Some others (NetCAT stuff, for instance) are manually set up.

The virtual webservers are configured using puppet by this file: https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-p6/blob/production/data/nodes/netbeans-vm1.apache.org.yaml (note that this is a private github repository for ASF committers).