Why choose OpenBSD
As soon as you click deploy, the Vultr cloud orchestration takes over and spins up your instance in your desired data center.
Free, Open-Source, and Secure
OpenBSD is a UNIX-like operating system that originated in the mid 1990s. It is widely known for its portability, code correctness, and proactive approach on security. In addition, the folks behind the OpenBSD project maintain other well known security-oriented projects such as OpenSSH and LibreSSL.
Available OpenBSD Versions
- OpenBSD 7.6 x64
- OpenBSD 7.5 x64
- Or, upload your own ISO
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Additional resources
Documentation and FAQs for OpenBSD
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 OpenBSD server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the OpenBSD 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 recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
How do I change the OpenBSD 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.