Arch Linux Rolling VPS on KVM and NVMe

The image

Your server starts from Arch Linux's own official cloud image, the one the project publishes for cloud servers, checked against its published checksum before it's used. Nothing is added to it but cloud-init's first-boot setup: your network addresses, your SSH keys, your hostname, and any app, packages or setup script you picked. Updates come straight from Arch Linux's repositories with pacman.

Support window

Arch Linux Rolling is a rolling release: it never reaches an end of support, you update it as it moves.

Watch Arch Linux Rolling build

A preview of ordering it: pick an app and a size and the build plays again, with pacman installing the real package names.

Preview of ordering a server

Distribution

App optional

All 15 one-click apps

Size

Arch Linux Rolling

web-1StandardNo app

0:49built

Order paidBitcoin payment confirmed
KVM slice reserved2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM
NVMe volume clonedOfficial Arch Linux cloud image, 80 GB
cloud-initNetwork, SSH keys, hostname
Applying updatespacman, from official repositories
Readyssh root@203.0.113.42

slice: kvm, 2 vcpu, 4 GB ram, virtioimage: arch, official cloud image, sha256 verifiednvme: cloning Arch Linux Rolling to a 80 GB volumenvme: filesystem grown to 80 GBboot: kernel up, cloud-init startednet: 203.0.113.42/24, 2001:db8:9::2/64ssh: 1 key for root, host keys generatedhostname: web-1$ pacman -Syu --noconfirmpacman: security updates appliedpacman: transaction complete✓ web-1 is ready: ssh root@203.0.113.42

$ssh root@203.0.113.42

A preview of the order flow with example addresses. Orders aren't open yet; 59 seconds is the build time we're aiming for.

One-click apps on Arch Linux Rolling

Arch Linux comes clean: no one-click apps, just the base system. Add packages and a setup script instead. Browse every app

Order Arch Linux Rolling from your terminal

The image id goes in --image, or "image" in the API. API quickstart

$ vps9

$ vps9 servers create --plan standard --image arch --hostname web-1 --key key_8f2c

POST /api/v1/servers

{
  "plan": "standard",
  "image": "arch",
  "hostname": "web-1"
}