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Rocky Linux VPS

Rocky Linux VPS hosting.

Rocky Linux is a community-built, bug-for-bug compatible rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Run enterprise software and RHEL tooling on a small, affordable VPS.

Create a VPSSee plans

Monthly, quarterly (5% off) or yearly (2 months free). Refunds within 72 hours of payment.

Why a VPS for this

Bug-for-bug compatible

Rocky aims to behave exactly like RHEL, so vendor instructions for Red Hat apply as written.

Long support

Major releases are maintained for about ten years, which suits servers you set up once and keep.

Familiar tooling

dnf, firewalld, SELinux and systemd, the same tools you meet on enterprise servers at work.

Get started

  1. 01

    Create the VPS

    Choose a plan and Rocky Linux in the VPS panel.

  2. 02

    Update and add EPEL

    Run dnf upgrade -y and dnf install epel-release for the extra package repository.

  3. 03

    Enable automatic updates

    Install dnf-automatic and enable dnf-automatic.timer with systemctl to apply security updates by themselves.

  4. 04

    Open your service ports

    Use firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=<port>/tcp for each port from your block, then reload firewalld.

Which plan fits

VPS plans

VPS M suits most Rocky Linux workloads: a database, a Java service or a few containers. Light single services fit VPS S.

VPS S

$1.96/mo

Billed monthly

  • 1 vCPU
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 30 GB NVMe
  • Shared IPv4, 20 ports
  • IPv6 address
  • KVM, full root

Dedicated IPv4: +$3/mo

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Fits this best

VPS M

$3.92/mo

Billed monthly

  • 2 vCPU
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 60 GB NVMe
  • Shared IPv4, 20 ports
  • IPv6 address
  • KVM, full root

Dedicated IPv4: +$3/mo

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VPS L

$7.84/mo

Billed monthly

  • 4 vCPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 120 GB NVMe
  • Shared IPv4, 20 ports
  • IPv6 address
  • KVM, full root

Dedicated IPv4: +$3/mo

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VPS XL

$15.68/mo

Billed monthly

  • 6 vCPU
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 200 GB NVMe
  • Shared IPv4, 20 ports
  • IPv6 address
  • KVM, full root

Dedicated IPv4: +$3/mo

Create a VPS

Shared IPv4 with 20 ports and IPv6 included; dedicated IPv4 +$3/mo

Your VPS is usually ready in minutes. During busy times it may take up to 48 hours to create; you'll get an email the moment it's ready. The same goes for a dedicated IPv4 address.

NAT · IPv6

NAT IPv4 and IPv6, in plain words

How people and programs reach your VPS, and what that means for what you run on it.

IPv4: one shared address, 20 ports of your own

IPv4 addresses are scarce, so several VPSes share one public IPv4 address. Your VPS gets its own block of 20 ports on it. Traffic to those ports goes straight to your VPS. The panel shows your address and your port range.

IPv6: an address that is only yours

Your VPS also has its own public IPv6 address. Every port on it is yours, including 80 and 443, so a website or service can listen on its normal port.

Running a website

Ports 80 and 443 on the shared IPv4 address are not yours. Point your domain's AAAA record at your IPv6 address and put Cloudflare's proxy in front: it accepts IPv4 visitors and passes them to your VPS over IPv6. A tunnel such as Cloudflare Tunnel works too, or add a dedicated IPv4 for $3 a month.

Going out is not limited by the port block

The 20 ports are for incoming connections. Your VPS can reach the internet as usual: updates, APIs, Discord and Git all work without opening anything.

Your IPv4 block is the set of ports the outside world can reach over IPv4. Bind services to those ports, or forward them with firewalld rich rules.

Example: SSH on the first port of your block looks like ssh -p 40001 root@203.0.113.10. Your real address and ports are in the panel.

Need a whole IPv4 address of your own? Add a dedicated IPv4 for $3 a month and every port on it is yours.

VPS questions

Yes. Rocky Linux is free and open source. You only pay for the VPS.

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People who answer

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