Operating Systems

How To Access Your Vultr VPS

Vultr provides several different ways to access your VPS to configure, install, and use. Access Credentials The default access credentials for your VPS are found on the Server Information Page that can be accessed by visiting my.vultr.com and clicking o...

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Installing Gentoo Linux on a Vultr Server

According to Gentoo's official site, Welcome to Gentoo, a flexible, source-based Linux distribution that becomes just about any system you need—and much more. As you can see, installing Gentoo on your beloved Vultr machine enables you to manage you...

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Vultr Block Storage For FreeBSD

Information in this article deals with modifying disks, partitions and filesystems and should be fully understood before following any examples as data loss or an inoperable system may otherwise result. How to identify your Vultr Block Storage device...

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Using FirewallD to Manage Your Firewall on CentOS 7

FirewallD is a dynamically managed firewall that provides support for IPv4 and IPv6 firewall rules and firewall zones that is available on RHEL 7 based servers. It is a direct replacement for iptables and works with the kernel's netfilter code. In this a...

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Two Docker Graphical Managing Tools: DockerUI and Shipyard

With the help of the Vultr Docker application, you can easily deploy Docker on your Vultr server instance. Meanwhile, you can facilitate Docker managing tasks with one of those graphical tools such as DockerUI and Shipyard. In this article, we will be co...

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Repairing a Windows VPS After Installing Driver Updates

Microsoft recently released drivers via Windows Update that can prevent Vultr VPS instances running Windows from booting properly. These drivers are called: SUSE - Other hardware - SUSE Network Driver for Windows SUSE - Storage Controller - SUSE Block D...

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Choosing an OS: CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, CoreOS, or Windows Server

This article provides a brief synopsis of the server operating systems offered as templates on Vultr. CentOS CentOS is an open-source version of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Created in 2004, CentOS is used widely in the hosting industry. Benefits in...

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Install NixOS on Vultr

NixOS is a purely functional Linux distribution. It can be found on nixos.org. A main reason to use NixOS is because it is completely declarative, which makes upgrading systems more reliable, and provides many other advantages too. This guide will show yo...

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