Arch on this estateRolling release, offered without pretending it suits everything.

Arch has no versions and no support window because it has no releases. You get the newest packaged version of everything, continuously, and in exchange the machine expects to be updated by somebody who is paying attention.

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In one line

Arch Linux

Rolling release, newest everything, no version numbers. Excellent if you update it; a trap if you do not.

On the menu

Arch Linux (rolling)

Installed from the upstream image, unmodified, with no agent and no vendor account on it. What you get on first boot is what upstream published.

The facts a chooser compares

Release cadence: Rolling; there are no releases
Support window: Whatever is current, indefinitely
Package manager: pacman, plus the AUR
Init: systemd
C library: glibc
Documentation: The Arch Wiki, which everybody else uses too

Machines it runs on

And what the cheapest one costs.

Every price on this estate is the price. No setup fee, no minimum term and no first-month discount that doubles in the second.

Cloud VPS Available $2.79/mo See the plans
Dedicated Servers Not offered — Another image runs here
Windows RDP Not offered — Another image runs here
GPU Compute Not offered — Another image runs here

How it gets there

Pick the image in the configurator, pay, and it boots.

No ticket, no identity documents, no call. The image list is on the configurator itself, one field below the plan, and a virtual machine is live in about fifty-five seconds.

Open the configurator See every price

The honest warning

A rolling release that has not been updated for six months is not a stable system, it is a difficult one: partial upgrades are unsupported, and a long gap between updates is where the manual interventions accumulate. Arch is excellent on a machine somebody looks after and a liability on one nobody does.

That is why it is offered on virtual machines and not on bare metal here. Snapshots are in the panel; take one before a large pacman -Syu and the risk becomes an inconvenience.

When it is genuinely right

A workstation-shaped machine in the cloud. A build box that needs current toolchains. Anything where you are the operator, you will be looking at it weekly anyway, and waiting two years for a package version is the actual problem you are solving.

Questions people actually ask

Is Arch stable enough for a server?

For a server you actively maintain, yes, and plenty of people run it that way. For one you deploy and forget, no, and nobody serious claims otherwise.

Do you provide the AUR?

It is a user repository, not something a host provides, and it is available to you exactly as on any Arch machine. You have full root.

What it is genuinely good at

The newest packaged version of everything, without waiting two years or building it yourself.
The AUR, which has effectively everything, and packaging that is trivial to read and audit.
Documentation that is the reference for Linux generally, not just for Arch.

Choose a different one if

Debian The machine has to keep working while nobody is looking at it. This is most servers.
Fedora You want current software with an actual release to pin to and a support window that exists.

That list is here because a page that cannot name a situation where something else is the right answer is an advertisement. Every image on this estate is included in the price of the machine, so there is nothing to sell you here — only the one that fits.

Versions and support dates are checked against upstream when they change. Last revised 30 July 2026.

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The rest of the same kind

Installed from a clean upstream image, never a modified one. Any of them on a virtual machine or on bare metal, in any of the eight regions.

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