Your own imageIf it boots, it runs here.

The image list on every product page is a convenience, not a boundary. You can mount your own ISO on a virtual machine, or PXE-boot bare metal and install whatever you like from your own media and your own answer file.

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In one line

Custom ISO

Bring your own image. Anything that boots, including systems nobody lists, installed by you.

On the menu

  • Any bootable image
  • PXE on bare metal

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

On virtual machines
Mount an ISO, install over the console
On bare metal
PXE boot, or virtual media over IPMI
Console
Serial and graphical, from the panel
Automation
Your own preseed, kickstart or autounattend file
Verification
Your image, your checksum, our hardware

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.

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.

Why this matters more here than elsewhere

Every stock image is somebody else’s starting point. Ours are clean upstream images with nothing added — no agent, no telemetry, no vendor repository — and you can verify that. But if you would rather not take anybody’s word for the first block on the disk, install it yourself.

That is the strongest version of what this estate sells. The records that exist about you are published, the identity was never collected, the jurisdiction is one you chose, and now the operating system is one you installed from media you checksummed.

Encryption at rest, done properly

A custom install lets you set up full-disk encryption with a passphrase entered over the console at boot. We never hold that passphrase, and there is no key escrow because there is nowhere to escrow it to.

How it works in practice

  1. On a virtual machine: upload or link an ISO, mount it from the panel, and install over the graphical or serial console.
  2. On bare metal: PXE from your own boot environment, or mount virtual media over IPMI, which is included on every machine.
  3. Automate it with your own preseed, kickstart or autounattend file if you are building more than one.
  4. Snapshot afterwards, so the machine you carefully built is recoverable.

Questions people actually ask

Can I install OpenBSD, NixOS or Gentoo?

Yes. None of them are on the stock list and all of them install fine. That is what this page is for.

Do you inspect what I install?

No. There is no agent and nothing reporting back — that is what the published record inventory means in practice. The acceptable use policy applies to what you do, not to what you boot.

Is there an extra charge?

No. Custom ISO on virtual machines and PXE on bare metal are included, and the console is in the panel.

What it is genuinely good at

  • An operating system nobody lists: NixOS, Gentoo, OpenBSD, Whonix, a router distribution, or something you built yourself.
  • A hardened or audited image your organisation already standardises on, installed without anybody else’s base layer underneath it.
  • Full-disk encryption set up at install time by you, with a passphrase entered over the console that we never see.

Choose a different one if

  • Debian You just want a working machine quickly. A stock image is live in about fifty-five seconds and a manual install is not.

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 июля 2026.

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