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Rocky Linux was founded by Gregory Kurtzer after CentOS changed into something its users had not signed up for. It is a bug-for-bug RHEL rebuild, free, with the same ten-year lifecycle.
In one line
The other Enterprise Linux rebuild, founded by the person who started CentOS. Same lifecycle, different governance.
On the menu
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
Machines it runs on
Every price on this estate is the price. No setup fee, no minimum term and no first-month discount that doubles in the second.
How it gets there
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.
They do the same job. Anybody telling you one is faster is describing noise. You are choosing a governance model and a bet about the next decade, not a technology.
Rocky aims at bug-for-bug reproduction of RHEL. AlmaLinux has moved towards ABI compatibility, which gives it more freedom to fix things and slightly less claim to being identical. If you are reproducing a certified environment, Rocky’s position is the tighter one.
The ten-year lifecycle is doing most of the work. On bare metal that has to sit in a rack and be forgotten — a storage node, a hypervisor built by hand, a database server nobody wants to migrate — a decade of security updates without a major version jump is a genuine operational feature.
Upstream Rocky, nothing added. No agent, no telemetry, no vendor repository we control. Full root from the first boot, with out-of-band access on bare metal so a bad kernel is a reboot rather than a support ticket.
Nobody can promise that about any project. What can be said is that both rebuilds have survived the event that created them, and that the packages you have installed keep working regardless.
Both projects publish migration tooling and it generally works. Take a snapshot first — that is available on every product from the panel.
What it is genuinely good at
Choose a different one if
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.
Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue
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.
