What distro do you use on your VPS?

bulbasaur

I have always been an Ubuntu user when it comes to VPSes. Since I've bought a new one for experimentation, I'm looking forward to try another distro and want to know what other people use or what's the popular choice.

WebProject

Debian and CentOS are great choices of os

kasodk

Until now, I have used CentOS for most VPS's for website hosting purposes. But since CentOS now is a dead fish, I am looking forward to CloudLinux releases the first version of AlmaLinux.

raindog308

Debian, thx.

jamespeach

1 GB RAM or less I find Debian to be best, above 1 GB I use Ubuntu.

benj0x

Ubuntu and Debian.

Serious purposes: Debian
Fun: Ubuntu

jsg

TempleOS

bulbasaur

@kasodk said:
CentOS now is a dead fish, I am looking forward to CloudLinux releases the first version of AlmaLinux.

Thanks for the update. I researched a bit and seems like there's Oracle Linux which is also a free, repackaged Redhat Linux, any thoughts on that OS?

I know that Oracle is an ass when it comes to licensing issues, but their other free product (Virtualbox) seems well designed and stable.

yoursunny

@jamespeach said:
1 GB RAM or less I find Debian to be best, above 1 GB I use Ubuntu.

I'm similar, but my line is at 512MB.

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@jsg said:
TempleOS

Does it support 64-bit IPv4x2 addresses?

saibal

Work: Debian
Fun: Windows 98 SE

skorupion

Ubuntu on both of my servers, i just know this system commands

Pixels

Debian or Devuan, depending on the mood.

kasodk

@stevewatson301 said:

@kasodk said:
CentOS now is a dead fish, I am looking forward to CloudLinux releases the first version of AlmaLinux.

Thanks for the update. I researched a bit and seems like there's Oracle Linux which is also a free, repackaged Redhat Linux, any thoughts on that OS?

I know that Oracle is an ass when it comes to licensing issues, but their other free product (Virtualbox) seems well designed and stable.

Oracle Linux is a good alternative if you are using DirectAdmin as a hosting panel, but cPanel will deny to help you if you run into problems. cPanel has announced that they will support AlmaLinux. They are also working hard to get a production-ready version of cPanel with Ubuntu LTS support ready before centOS 8 reaches end-of-life.

RockyLinux is another interesting project. RockyLinux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project.

awooooool

CentOS 7 while waiting for Alma or RockyLinux to come out

letrocks

I use ArchLinux where ever I can install a custom ISO. I also have Ubuntu and Debian servers.
I like ArchLinux because of rolling release and not have to worry about finding and backport some repos to install the latest package on the Debian or Ubuntu. e.g Wireguard, new MySQL, redis etc...
I haven't faced any issue with ArchLinux for my 6+ servers. Only benefit is that it is running the latest version of packages. pacman FTW.

webdev

debian

dominame

@letrocks said: I use ArchLinux where ever I can install a custom ISO.

I use Arch for desktop, laptop etc. Almost de rigeur for a keen photographer to keep up with open source imaging software - nothing to touch it in the proprietary (expensive) field - and an excellent distro anyway.

It gets fiddly when you need AUR packages, for often very understandable reasons the maintainers often neglect them, so I ditched it for servers a while ago. Currently using CentOS because that's what the hosting offerings such as ClouLinux are based on, and replacements should be available in good time as mooted earlier in the thread.

agomez

CentOS and Debian

raindog308

@jsg said: TempleOS

"Dear provider, do you support custom ISO...?"

@dominame said: Almost de rigeur for a keen photographer to keep up with open source imaging software - nothing to touch it in the proprietary (expensive) field - and an excellent distro anyway.

What do you mean by "imaging software"?

If you mean GIMP...last time I looked at it a couple years ago, it was way behind Photoshop.

jsg

@raindog308 said:

@jsg said: TempleOS

"Dear provider, do you support custom ISO...?"

No, I do not even talk to providers not offering a TempleOS ISO. They are ungodly.

sandanista

Debian

valk

Arch is for fun.

Debian is... ya know

SirFoxy

@jsg said:
TempleOS

watched a documentary on that dude super smart but insane

Kousaka

arch, debian, ubuntu, fedora
But if it’s serious, debian is considered first

TimboJones

I think I'll try ClearOS this year and get the best performance.

Ganonk

aptitude family

nyamenk

Apt & yum

bulbasaur

@letrocks said:
I use ArchLinux where ever I can install a custom ISO. I also have Ubuntu and Debian servers.
I like ArchLinux because of rolling release and not have to worry about finding and backport some repos to install the latest package on the Debian or Ubuntu. e.g Wireguard, new MySQL, redis etc...
I haven't faced any issue with ArchLinux for my 6+ servers. Only benefit is that it is running the latest version of packages. pacman FTW.

I used to use Arch on desktop and packages being updated frequently is great on desktop. But, doesn't this tend to break any existing setup you might have, like web apps/tools/scripts that you have on your server?

niceboy

Using mostly centos 7 and a few with debian 10

rossen

@letrocks said:
I use ArchLinux where ever I can install a custom ISO. I also have Ubuntu and Debian servers.
I like ArchLinux because of rolling release and not have to worry about finding and backport some repos to install the latest package on the Debian or Ubuntu. e.g Wireguard, new MySQL, redis etc...
I haven't faced any issue with ArchLinux for my 6+ servers. Only benefit is that it is running the latest version of packages. pacman FTW.

isn't debian testing pretty much a rolling release?

bark

Debian Bullseye. Breathtakingly powerful.

Kernel kernel kernel.