Why choose Fedora
As soon as you click deploy, the Vultr cloud orchestration takes over and spins up your instance in your desired data center.
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Fedora is the upstream operating system of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It has a reputation for including the latest technologies and software packages into every release. In addition, Fedora is also a stable and secure Linux-based operating system, configured with Security-Enhanced Linux.
Fedora Server offers a supported lifespan of roughly 13 months, with a upgrade path available to its newer releases.
Available Fedora Versions
- Fedora 40 x64
- Fedora 39 x64
- Or, upload your own ISO
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Documentation and FAQs for Fedora
FAQ
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.
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 Fedora server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the Fedora 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 virtual private cloud 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 recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
How do I change the Fedora hostname?
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.