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Every server we sell is a Linux server.

Six images, full root, your own kernel on KVM, and a rebuild that takes about a minute. From $6.90 a month — and there is no Windows option, which we would rather say here than let you discover at the deploy screen.

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Images

The 8 images, and what each is actually for.

Every one of them is available on every plan, in every region, at no extra cost. Picking wrong is cheap: rebuild onto another one and keep the same IP address.

Operating system images available on every cloud VPS plan, with guidance on when to choose each
ImagePick it forWhy
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSThe default choiceThe newest long-term-support release we ship. Five years of standard security updates from its release, the widest documentation, and the version most install scripts expect.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTSMatching an existing fleetThe previous LTS. Deploy it when the rest of your estate runs it and you want one operating system to reason about, not two. It has less life left than 24.04, so plan the upgrade rather than inherit it.
Debian 12A smaller, slower-moving baseA leaner default install and a conservative update policy. Popular for servers that should change as little as possible between now and the next major release.
AlmaLinux 9RHEL-compatible, Alma governanceA community rebuild of the enterprise distribution, with a long support horizon and SELinux enforcing by default. Choose it when your tooling, your team or your auditor thinks in RHEL.
Rocky Linux 9RHEL-compatible, Rocky governanceThe same upstream and effectively the same system administration as AlmaLinux. Which of the two you pick is a question about who you want stewarding the rebuild.
Ubuntu 24.04 + DockerStraight to containersUbuntu 24.04 with Docker preinstalled. Saves an install and a reboot when the first thing you were going to do was install Docker anyway.
Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019

Support windows quoted above are the distributions’ own policies, not a commitment from us. When a release goes out of support, the server keeps running — it just stops receiving upstream security updates, and moving off it becomes your job.

What Linux means here

A whole machine's worth of operating system, not a slice of one.

Shared hosting gives you a directory on somebody else's Linux. This gives you your own.

Your own kernel on KVM

Full hardware virtualisation, so you load your own kernel modules, run your own firewall, mount what you like and are not sharing a kernel with another tenant. It is the difference between a virtual machine and a container sold as one.

Root, and nothing of ours running on it

We do not install an agent on your server. What is running is what you put there, which matters when you are debugging at 2am or explaining the machine to an auditor.

A rebuild is a minute, not a ticket

Wipe and reinstall onto any of the six images from the panel, keeping the same IP address.

No control panel licences

We do not resell cPanel, Plesk or anything similar. You are welcome to install and license one yourself; we simply do not sell it, and we would rather that were on the page than in a support reply.

Plans

Every plan runs every image.

Nothing on this page changes the price. The image is a deploy-time choice, and so is the region.

Questions

Choosing and living with the image.

Which image should I pick if I have no strong opinion?
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It is the most recent long-term-support release we ship, it has the largest body of copy-and-paste documentation behind it, and almost every third-party install script assumes it. Pick Debian 12 instead if you prefer a smaller default install and a slower-moving base, or AlmaLinux 9 / Rocky Linux 9 if your team already writes things in terms of RHEL.
What is the difference between AlmaLinux 9 and Rocky Linux 9?
Both are community rebuilds of the same upstream enterprise distribution, so package names, paths, SELinux behaviour and administration commands are effectively identical. The difference is governance rather than technology — different sponsors and different foundations. If your organisation has a preference, follow it; if it does not, either one is a fine choice and you will not notice a difference in daily use.
What does the Docker image save me?
It is Ubuntu 24.04 with Docker already installed, which removes one install step and a reboot from your first ten minutes. Nothing else is different: the same kernel, the same root, the same plan. If you would rather install a specific Docker version yourself, deploy plain Ubuntu 24.04 and do that instead.
Can I install a distribution you do not list?
The catalogue lists six images and that is what the deploy flow offers. We do not publish a custom-image or ISO-upload feature, so if you need something outside the list, ask support before you order rather than after — we would rather tell you no in advance than take money for something that does not fit.
Do you patch the operating system for me?
No. Every VPS plan is self-managed: you hold root, and updates, kernel upgrades, firewall rules and application security are yours. That is not an oversight, it is what the price reflects. If nobody on your side wants that work, managed hosting is the product that does it — a different service, not an add-on.
What happens if I break the machine?
Two ways out, both in the panel. The browser console gets you a session even when SSH is what you broke, which covers the classic bad firewall rule or mangled sshd_config. If it is worse than that, rebuild onto any image in about a minute — you keep the same IP address, and you lose everything on the disk that you have not copied elsewhere. Take the copy before the risky change, not after.

Keep reading

Where to go from here.

Regions

Every image, in every region.