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TurnKey Linux Templates
http://turnkeylinux.org provides a shitload of preconfigured linux VM's, either in OVF, ISO, VMDK, OpenVZ, Openstack and Xen format.
Recently the templates have been updated and they've added a lot of new templates. From basic LAMP,LNMP,LLMP stacks to complete Gitlab, Active Directory Domain Controllers, Jenkins CI and torrent servers.
Might be a good idea for VPS hosts to look in to adding these to their template libraries?
I deploy these things quite a lot and they really work good. I however almost always remove and disable webmin and phpmyadmin or any other web based file manager if not needed...
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prometeus has some. Not sure about how many ppl use them.
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BuyVM has tons of Turnkey templates from memory.
BuyVM has about 100 Turnkey templates for OpenVZ
Really good resource site though!
Anyone uses them ? Made a tutorial for a WP site based on one of those.
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Didn't realize they had been updating them recently. Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely be adding some. Not terribly difficult to make your own but hey...time saver.
Never been a big fan of the TurnKey templates, they have a bunch of crap you don't usually need. If you have the memory to spare, I guess they're convenient but I like to optimize my VM's based on the task I want them to do. Most of my VM's are using less then 64MB of ram at any given time.
I know a couple of my providers offer at least the most popular ones like Wordpress.
I also prefer to install and configure my stuff myself, but for some users the lazy way might be the preferred way of doing things.
Depends on the purpose I guess. I notice they added an ownCloud one. Resource hog no matter how you spin it, but pretty cool script either way.
Also good for people who want a VPS as an upgrade to shared hosting but have no desire to learn how to do those things. These people seem more common than I thought.
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There are many appliances that can be quickly deployed and a pain to setup in low mem environment by ppl which are not like us, writing mahabharata on a grain of rice.
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