AlmaLinux VPS — Community Enterprise Linux

AlmaLinux was created by CloudLinux, a company with over a decade of experience maintaining a RHEL-compatible distribution for the web hosting industry. This commercial backing ensures that AlmaLinux has dedicated engineering resources, a professional security team, and long-term sustainability that purely volunteer-driven projects sometimes lack.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation operates as a non-profit with community governance, ensuring that no single company can change the project's direction unilaterally. This governance model provides the stability guarantees that enterprise users need when committing to a Linux distribution for the next decade.

AlmaLinux 9 provides 1:1 binary compatibility with RHEL 9. Packages are rebuilt from RHEL source RPMs with only branding changes, meaning your applications, configurations, and automation that target RHEL work identically on AlmaLinux without modification.

AlmaLinux has become the default operating system for cPanel, Plesk, and DirectAdmin control panels since CentOS Linux's discontinuation. If you run a web hosting business or manage client websites through a control panel, AlmaLinux on AnubizHost provides the most compatible and well-tested foundation.

• cPanel officially supports AlmaLinux 8 and 9 as a Tier 1 platform.
• Plesk certifies AlmaLinux for all current Plesk Obsidian releases.
• DirectAdmin provides native AlmaLinux packages and installation scripts.
• CloudLinux OS can be installed on top of AlmaLinux for CageFS and LVE resource limiting.

Even without a control panel, AlmaLinux's RHEL compatibility makes it ideal for LAMP and LEMP stacks. Apache, Nginx, PHP (multiple versions via Remi repository), MySQL, and MariaDB all install and configure identically to RHEL, with the same SELinux policies and firewalld integration that enterprise environments expect.

AlmaLinux 9 follows RHEL 9's security lifecycle with patches provided through May 2032. The AlmaLinux security team monitors RHEL errata and rebuilds security updates typically within 24 hours of the upstream release. Critical vulnerabilities are often patched within hours, matching or exceeding the response time of commercial RHEL subscriptions.

The distribution inherits RHEL's full security stack including SELinux with targeted policies, FIPS-validated cryptographic modules, OpenSCAP compliance scanning, and kernel-level audit logging. These tools allow you to implement and verify security baselines required by PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and other regulatory frameworks.

AlmaLinux also offers ELevate, a tool for in-place upgrades between major versions. When AlmaLinux 10 arrives, you will be able to upgrade from 9 without reinstalling — a capability that saves significant time and eliminates the risk of data loss during major version transitions.

AlmaLinux VPS plans start at $15 per month for 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, and 30 GB NVMe SSD. Production tiers offer 4 vCPU, 8–16 GB RAM, and up to 200 GB storage. Enterprise configurations reach 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, and 400 GB NVMe for demanding database and application workloads.

Select AlmaLinux 9 during checkout and your server provisions from the official cloud image within minutes. Root SSH access, dedicated IPv4, and 1 Gbps unmetered bandwidth are included with every plan. Our client panel provides reboot, reinstall, and VNC console functionality.

We accept Bitcoin, Monero, Litecoin, credit cards, and PayPal. No identity verification is needed for cryptocurrency payments. All plans include DDoS protection, 24/7 monitoring, free OS reinstalls, and a 99.9% uptime SLA. Annual billing saves up to 15%.