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What OS are you using on your VPS?

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  • vuanhsonvuanhson Member

    Debian and docker containers, rocking for many years
    Tried switch to rhel, setup podman, read podman install on rhel official doc, cried, delete rhel VM, create a new debian VM to use again.

    Thanked by 4satorik emgh raindog308 nagasaki_castella
  • magicvpnmagicvpn Member

    FreeBSD for pfSense instances (VPN), Debian for the rest :D

    Thanked by 1satorik
  • BasToTheMaxBasToTheMax Member

    Debian or Alpine Linux (depending on my vps resources)

  • hezihezi Member

    @vuanhson said:
    Debian and docker containers, rocking for many years
    Tried switch to rhel, setup podman, read podman install on rhel official doc, cried, delete rhel VM, create a new debian VM to use again.

    I think Debian is great, but for podman, which part did you have trouble with?
    The CLI is 1:1, alias docker=podman

  • xemapsxemaps Member

    @ailice said:

    Dual boot of something

    Who in the good fortune, doing dual boot on VPS?

    I do that ! Even triple boot.
    Windows 10 + Macrium + MXLinux on a small VPS 50GB disk :p

  • s0n1cs0n1c Member

    @ninh said:

    @s0n1c said:
    Most of my servers run Ubuntu, but I currently have one VPS on Windows. I’d like to switch that VPS to Ubuntu as the host and run Windows inside as a nested VM. Has anyone had success running Windows VM’s on Ubuntu with minimal performance loss on a VPS? I’ve used VMware on Windows hosts before and it was very fast.

    Do any of yall recommend a good hypervisor for best Windows VM performance in a nested environment? If anyone could recommend me one for my use case, it would be appreciated

    I reinstall Debian as docker host and use tianon/docker-qemu to install Windows VM in docker container. CPU benchmark on Windows VM = 92% of on Debian host.

    thank you :)

    Thanked by 1pyrolad
  • eb1995eb1995 Member

    @jure12 said:

    @MikeA said:

    @jure12 said:

    @MikeA said:

    Very good OS .. lighter than Ubuntu for servers.
    The problem is that all Free Panels are made for Debian / Ubuntu.

    I agree less support it, but still plenty of options.

    aaPanel, Virtualmin, Control-WebPanel, FASTPANEL, Cloudpanel.io.

    Share with us if you know a good panel without bugs.

    I really like hestia panel and I’m rooting for them to take over

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    Who is running MacOS on a VPS?

    Thanked by 2jsg PuDLeZ
  • xemapsxemaps Member

    I love debian, but as desktop i use MX LINUX

  • xemapsxemaps Member

    @raindog308 said:

    Who is running MacOS on a VPS?

    I don't know who, but some offers are on the net like https://ultahost.com/mac-vps-hosting#plans aso.

  • rasping5978rasping5978 Member

    ubuntu is still the go-to for me, even thou some may complain about snap and their package management stuff. i think the only bad thing is docker networking is conflicting with native system firewall, even till now

  • Carlin0Carlin0 Member

    This question has already been asked 100 times

    Thanked by 1Zeniic
  • xemapsxemaps Member

    @Carlin0 said:
    This question has already been asked 100 times

    But OS & USE change with the time, isn't it ? ;)

  • FastLayerFastLayer Member

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  • NovaCloudHostingNovaCloudHosting Member, Patron Provider
    edited July 2025

    @raindog308 said:

    Who is running MacOS on a VPS?

    Yes...

    no other comment needed

  • serveradministratorserveradministrator Member

    Debian

  • NoctNoct Member

    @raindog308 said:

    Who is running MacOS on a VPS?

    I -- definitely not a fan of Apple -- have done so. That was my first VPS, and also what brought me to LET.

  • WhiteRoseGWhiteRoseG Member

    @jure12 said:

    @MikeA said:

    @jure12 said:

    @MikeA said:

    Very good OS .. lighter than Ubuntu for servers.
    The problem is that all Free Panels are made for Debian / Ubuntu.

    I agree less support it, but still plenty of options.

    aaPanel, Virtualmin, Control-WebPanel, FASTPANEL, Cloudpanel.io.

    Share with us if you know a good panel without bugs.

    Virtualmin all the way

  • satoriksatorik Member

    @raindog308 said:

    Who is running MacOS on a VPS?

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @satorik said:

    But that's not a VPS...?

  • satoriksatorik Member

    @raindog308 said:
    But that's not a VPS...?

    Oh, yeah, I didn't notice that. True, running macOS on a VPS is a strange choice, and it’s even less common comparing with a windows VPS.

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    OS2 Warp4 and free from Gnu infestation.

  • laeylaey Member

    @JerryHou said:
    Ubuntu 20.04 - Ubuntu 22.04 - Debian 12

    For some RDP, I have Windows Sever as well...

    What happen with Ubuntu 24.04 ?

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @jsg said: OS2 Warp4

    I find FreeDOS to be a guilty pleasure, and I have run it on a VM here at home. I also run it in Qemu on my laptop from time to time.

    I can't really find any use for it but the nostalgia factor is big.

    1.4 was just released!

    Thanked by 1jsg
  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @magicvpn said: FreeBSD for pfSense instances

    I love pfSense

    Thanked by 1magicvpn
  • laeylaey Member

    @s0n1c said:
    Most of my servers run Ubuntu, but I currently have one VPS on Windows. I’d like to switch that VPS to Ubuntu as the host and run Windows inside as a nested VM. Has anyone had success running Windows VM’s on Ubuntu with minimal performance loss on a VPS? I’ve used VMware on Windows hosts before and it was very fast.

    Do any of yall recommend a good hypervisor for best Windows VM performance in a nested environment? If anyone could recommend me one for my use case, it would be appreciated

    Have you ever heard/try windock ?

    Thanked by 2s0n1c xemaps
  • JerryHouJerryHou Veteran

    @laey said:

    @JerryHou said:
    Ubuntu 20.04 - Ubuntu 22.04 - Debian 12

    For some RDP, I have Windows Sever as well...

    What happen with Ubuntu 24.04 ?

    I decided to move to Debian 12, more stable, no snap, same usage. :D

    Thanked by 1laey
  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    For me the good point of debian is that one can get - even decent - derivates that are not systemd-infested.
    The bad point is that debian always is behind in terms of versions. Ergo Alpine or BSD.

    Btw I was serious about OS/2. A really fine OS.

  • PuDLeZPuDLeZ Member

    @raindog308 said:

    Who is running MacOS on a VPS?

    Yeah, no clue for a VPS, kind of the same for dual booting one. Would be a diff story if it was dedis.

  • s0n1cs0n1c Member

    @laey said:

    @s0n1c said:
    Most of my servers run Ubuntu, but I currently have one VPS on Windows. I’d like to switch that VPS to Ubuntu as the host and run Windows inside as a nested VM. Has anyone had success running Windows VM’s on Ubuntu with minimal performance loss on a VPS? I’ve used VMware on Windows hosts before and it was very fast.

    Do any of yall recommend a good hypervisor for best Windows VM performance in a nested environment? If anyone could recommend me one for my use case, it would be appreciated

    Have you ever heard/try windock ?

    Thank you, something like this is exactly what i was looking for :)

    Thanked by 1xemaps
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