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AlmaLinux VPS with a decade of patches.
AlmaLinux 10 was released in May 2025 and carries the project's ten-year lifecycle: security support through May 2035. It is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is why it is the usual destination for anyone leaving CentOS or running software that is certified for RHEL and nothing else.
- Patched to 2035
- RHEL-compatible
- Root, SELinux yours
- ~60s deploy
AlmaLinux plans start at
$4.95/mo
Billed monthly · 16 plans in 4 ranges
- Current stable release installed for you
- In-place migration from CentOS supported
- Dedicated IPv4 on every plan
- 7-day money-back guarantee
- Current release
- 10
- Security support to
- 2035
- Lifecycle
- 10 yr
- Countries
- 56
AlmaLinux VPS Hosting at VPS For Life
An AlmaLinux VPS from VPS For Life is an unmanaged KVM virtual private server running the current stable AlmaLinux release, with the root account in your hands. AlmaLinux is a free, community-maintained rebuild that aims to be binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and each major release carries a ten-year lifecycle. Plans run from $4.95 to $69.95 a month across four ranges, every one including a dedicated IPv4 address and a choice of 56 datacenter countries, deployed in about 60 seconds after payment.
- Distribution: current stable AlmaLinux, which is AlmaLinux 10 as of August 2026.
- Support window: active support to May 2030, security support to May 2035.
- Compatibility: binary compatible with RHEL;
dnf,rpm, SELinux and firewalld as standard. - Migration: existing CentOS installations can be converted in place.
- Virtualization: KVM — your own kernel, resources not oversold.
- Access level: unmanaged with full root, including SELinux policy.
- Payment: Bitcoin (BTC), Monero (XMR), Ethereum (ETH), USDT on TRC-20 or ERC-20, Litecoin (LTC), Tron (TRX) and BNB Chain (BNB), plus PayPal or card. Prices in USD, billed monthly.
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How Long Each Distribution Stays Patched
The ten-year window is the single biggest practical difference between the RHEL rebuilds and the Debian family. All four distributions below are available on every plan.
| Distribution | Current stable | Released | Security support until | Packages | Release model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian view | 13 “Trixie” | August 2025 | August 2028LTS to June 2030 | apt / dpkg | Fixed release, roughly every 2 years |
| Ubuntu view | 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” | April 2026 | April 2031ESM to April 2036 | apt / dpkg | LTS every 2 years, interim every 6 months |
| AlmaLinux This page | 10 | May 2025 | May 203510-year lifecycle | dnf / rpm | RHEL-compatible, tracks RHEL point releases |
| Rocky Linux view | 10 | June 2025 | May 203510-year lifecycle | dnf / rpm | RHEL-compatible, tracks RHEL point releases |
Upstream dates, verified August 2026 against
endoflife.date
and the distribution projects. We install the current stable release of whichever you
choose; these dates describe the distributions, not our panel.
What AlmaLinux 10 Does Differently from RHEL 10
AlmaLinux 10 is built to be compatible with RHEL 10. Where it adds or keeps something Red Hat dropped, it says so. These are the differences the project documents.
An x86-64-v2 build for older CPUs
RHEL 10, and Rocky Linux 10 with it, needs an x86-64-v3 processor (AVX2 era). AlmaLinux 10 ships the v3 build by default and also publishes a separate x86-64-v2 build, so older but working hardware keeps getting updates, with EPEL built for it too.
Frame pointers on by default
Packages are built with frame pointers, which makes system-wide profiling and tracing
(perf and similar) work properly out of the box.
SPICE kept
Red Hat dropped SPICE remote-display support. AlmaLinux 10 re-enables it for both server and client. That matters if you run virtual machines with graphical consoles yourself.
More hardware drivers
The project re-enabled over 150 devices that upstream removed. That is less relevant on a virtual server than on bare metal, but it is part of the same “keep it working” policy.
To see which x86-64 levels a CPU supports, run this on any Linux system with a recent glibc:
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help | grep supported
x86-64-v3 (supported, searched) means the default build runs. If the list stops at
v2, that machine needs the x86-64-v2 build, or a 9.x release, which is supported to 2032.
Source: the AlmaLinux 10.0 release announcement.
Moving a CentOS, Rocky or RHEL Server to AlmaLinux
Two tools from the AlmaLinux project: one switches distribution in place, the other upgrades a major version.
| You are on | Route |
|---|---|
| CentOS 8.4+, CentOS Stream 8, 9 or 10 | almalinux-deploy, in place, to the same major version of AlmaLinux |
| Rocky Linux, RHEL or Oracle Linux 8, 9 or 10 | almalinux-deploy, in place |
| CentOS 7 | ELevate to AlmaLinux 8, then ELevate again for each further major version |
| AlmaLinux 8 or 9, wanting the next major version | ELevate, one major version per run: 8 to 9, then 9 to 10 |
Switching distribution in place — as root, inside screen or tmux, with dnf-plugins-core installed:
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlmaLinux/almalinux-deploy/master/almalinux-deploy.sh
bash almalinux-deploy.shReboot afterwards so the AlmaLinux kernel loads. For major-version upgrades, follow the ELevate quick-start guide. The project itself says to take backups and do a trial run first, and that matters doubly here, because we hold no copy of your data. Our migration guide covers the checks before and after.
AlmaLinux Is the Right Choice When…
And where we would point you somewhere else instead.
Your software is certified for Red Hat
Commercial control panels, monitoring agents and enterprise applications frequently list RHEL and its rebuilds only. Binary compatibility is the whole reason AlmaLinux exists.
You are leaving CentOS
An in-place conversion is supported, so you are not rebuilding a working server from scratch just to keep receiving updates.
You want to build it once and leave it
Ten years of security updates on one major version removes two major upgrades you would otherwise have to schedule in the same period.
You want SELinux on by default
Mandatory access control as standard rather than as a project. You hold root, so the policy is yours to shape or disable.
You are on a 1 GB plan and counting megabytes
The RHEL-family base is heavier than a minimal Debian install. On the smallest plan that is a real difference.
Every tutorial you follow assumes apt
dnf, firewalld and SELinux are a different set of habits.
If your team already lives in the Debian family,
Ubuntu is less friction.
Your vendor requires a Red Hat subscription specifically
A rebuild is compatible with RHEL, but it is not RHEL and carries no Red Hat support contract. If a contract is the requirement, no rebuild satisfies it.
You expected us to tell you it beats Rocky Linux
It does not, in any way that will change your day. Rocky gives the same compatibility and the same ten years, at the same price here.
AlmaLinux Runs on Every Plan We Sell
No separate enterprise-Linux product line and no surcharge. The entry plan of each range is below.
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AlmaLinux Guides in Our Knowledgebase
From our AlmaLinux & Rocky Linux category, open to read without an account.
Installing Docker on AlmaLinux
Read the guide →Installing PostgreSQL on AlmaLinux
Read the guide →Migrating from CentOS to AlmaLinux
Read the guide →Using dnf, the AlmaLinux Package Manager
Read the guide →Configuring firewalld on AlmaLinux
Read the guide →SELinux Basics on AlmaLinux
Read the guide →Hardening SSH on AlmaLinux
Read the guide →AlmaLinux vs Ubuntu/Debian: Which to Choose
Read the guide →AlmaLinux VPS Questions
The current stable release, which is AlmaLinux 10. AlmaLinux 10 was released in May 2025 and carries the project's ten-year lifecycle: active support to May 2030 and security support to May 2035. If you need AlmaLinux 9 for a compatibility reason, ask before ordering.
AlmaLinux is a community rebuild that aims to be binary compatible with RHEL, so software packaged and certified for Red Hat generally installs and runs unchanged. It is not Red Hat, and it does not come with a Red Hat support contract — if your vendor requires a supported RHEL subscription specifically, a rebuild will not satisfy that requirement. For everything else, the compatibility is the point. There is more background in AlmaLinux vs Rocky Linux.
For most workloads, no, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. Both are free RHEL-compatible rebuilds created after CentOS Linux was discontinued, both use
dnf and SELinux, both give you a ten-year lifecycle per major release, and both are available on every plan here at the same price. The differences are in governance and in how each project handles compatibility. Pick the one your team or your vendor already names; if neither does, pick either and move on — or read the Rocky Linux page and the full comparison. One concrete difference on older hardware: AlmaLinux 10 also ships an x86-64-v2 build.
Yes. From CentOS 8.4 or later, or CentOS Stream 8, 9 or 10, the
almalinux-deploy script converts the server to AlmaLinux in place. It does the same for Rocky Linux, RHEL and Oracle Linux 8, 9 and 10. From CentOS 7, use AlmaLinux’s ELevate project to upgrade to AlmaLinux 8 first, then step up one major version at a time — both routes are above. Since you hold root on an unmanaged server, you can run them yourself. Take a backup before you start — we do not hold a copy of your data.
Yes. Every plan is unmanaged KVM virtualization with the root account in your hands, so SELinux policy, firewalld rules, the kernel and every package are yours to configure. Nothing is locked at our end — see full root access and the SELinux basics guide.
A minimal AlmaLinux install runs in 1 GB, but the RHEL-family base plus SELinux is heavier than a minimal Debian system. If you are running a control panel or an application server on top, 2 GB or more is a more comfortable starting point — the pricing page lists every plan.
AlmaLinux is one of the RHEL-family systems commercial control panels commonly target, which is a large part of why people choose it. Licensing and current supported versions come from the panel vendor rather than from us, so confirm with them before ordering if a specific panel is the reason you are here — see VPS for cPanel and VPS for DirectAdmin.
Yes, on every plan in every range — a dedicated address rather than a shared or NATed one. Additional addresses are available if a project needs more than one.
Fifty-six countries, spread across Europe, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, the Americas and Africa. You choose the country during checkout — see datacenter locations — and deployment is automated, about 60 seconds after payment clears, including cryptocurrency payments. Prices are not identical in every country, because datacenter costs are not; the figure for the one you pick is shown before you pay.
It means the major release you install today keeps receiving security updates until 2035 without a major-version upgrade. For infrastructure you intend to build once and leave alone — an internal service, a database server, a piece of a compliance-bound stack — that removes an entire class of scheduled work that a shorter-cycle distribution would force on you twice in the same period.
Deploy an AlmaLinux server in about 60 seconds.
Current stable release, real root access, a dedicated IPv4 address and your choice of 56 countries — from $4.95 a month, with a 7-day money-back guarantee on first orders.