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What runs on itThirteen images, one price, on any machine here.

Every one of them is installed from the upstream image, unmodified, with no agent and no vendor account on it. None of them costs more than another, so the only question worth asking is which one fits — and these pages are written to answer that rather than to sell one.

thirteen images · eight jurisdictions · From $2.79/mo

True of all thirteen

The image is the only thing that changes.

The hardware, the network, the price, the regions and the policy are the same whichever one you pick. That is unusual enough to be worth stating: most hosts charge a premium for Windows, a premium for a hypervisor and a ticket for anything not on the list.

So none of these pages argues that its image is the best. Each one names what it is genuinely good at, and each one names three situations where a different image on this same list is the right answer instead.

  • Clean upstream imagesBuilt from the vendor’s own installer or cloud image. No agent, no telemetry, no account on the box.
  • The same hardwareNVMe Gen4 in RAID-10, EPYC or Xeon, ECC memory, whichever image is on it.
  • No image premiumWindows includes its licence; the hypervisors, the BSDs and your own ISO cost nothing extra.
  • Root, or AdministratorFull control from first boot, plus out-of-band console and rescue on every plan.
  • Your own ISO tooIf the thirteen do not include it, upload the installer and boot it yourself.

The images

Pick the one you already know.

Grouped by what they are, not ranked. Jump to Linux, BSD, Windows or hypervisors.

Side by side

The five facts that actually decide it.

Not benchmarks. Every one of these runs at the same speed on the same machine; what differs is how often it changes under you and who has to deal with that.

Upstream facts, not ours — checked against each project’s own release documentation. Nothing here is a measurement of this estate: all twelve run on the same hardware at the same price.
Image New release Supported for Packages Init Runs on
Debian About every two years, when it is ready Five years including LTS APT / dpkg systemd Cloud VPS Dedicated Servers
Ubuntu LTS every two years, in April Five years standard on LTS APT / dpkg, plus snap systemd Cloud VPS Dedicated Servers GPU Compute
AlmaLinux Tracks RHEL, roughly every three years Ten years per major release DNF / RPM systemd Cloud VPS Dedicated Servers
Rocky Linux Tracks RHEL, roughly every three years Ten years per major release DNF / RPM systemd Cloud VPS Dedicated Servers
Fedora Every six months About thirteen months DNF / RPM systemd Cloud VPS
Alpine Linux Every six months Two years per stable release apk OpenRC, not systemd Cloud VPS Dedicated Servers
Arch Linux Rolling; there are no releases Whatever is current, indefinitely pacman, plus the AUR systemd Cloud VPS
FreeBSD Major roughly every two years Around five years per major branch pkg, plus the ports tree rc.d Cloud VPS Dedicated Servers
Windows Server Every two to three years Ten years: five mainstream, five extended None in the base; winget or MSI Service Control Manager Windows RDP Dedicated Servers
Proxmox VE Tracks Debian stable, about every two years About three years per major version APT / dpkg systemd Dedicated Servers
VMware ESXi Every two to three years About five years, then paid extended support None; VIBs through the update manager Its own — the hypervisor is the system Dedicated Servers
TrueNAS SCALE Twice a year, with long-term branches About two years per branch None; the appliance updates whole systemd Dedicated Servers

Twelve of the thirteen. Custom ISO is not in the table because it is a method rather than a system: every cell would read “whatever you boot”, which is true and useless. Price a build

Or start from the machine rather than the image.

Or skip the reading and price a build.

The image list is one field below the plan. No account needed, live in about fifty-five seconds.

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