What is a node?

Hello,
I've problems understanding the meaning of a "node" in ejabberd. Is a node a complete different instance of the server, listing on other ports? Is it just another DB instance? Can two node listen on the same ports but providing different vhosts? I've found no explanation in the docs, if someone could point me to one...

Thanks,

Florian

See Wikipedia. So in short:

See Wikipedia. So in short: it is an instance of ejabberd. You need at least one node, but you can have much more in case you are clustering ejabberd.

Examples:

  1. No cluster:
    • node on computer1
  2. Cluster with 4 nodes
    • node on computer1
    • node on computer2
    • node on computer3
    • node on computer4

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sander

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