As soon as you click deploy, the Vultr cloud orchestration takes over and spins up your instance in your desired data center.
Alma Linux is an open source, community-driven, free enterprise Linux distribution that focuses on long-term stability. Alma Linux provides a production-grade platform that is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and pre-Stream CentOS.
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Documentation and FAQs for Alma Linux
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling. Note that AlmaLinux needs to be rebooted one time after a new deployment to fully set the hostname.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your AlmaLinux server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the AlmaLinux firewall, or both.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our troubleshooting guide for Alma Linux boot problems. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling. Note that AlmaLinux needs to be rebooted one time after a new deployment to fully set the hostname.