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Installing Linux on Your VPS: Template or ISO?

Feb 11, 2021

Recent events with SolusVM's templates bring up an age-old question: should you install from a template or from an ISO? What's the Difference? A template is provided by the provider, or more likely by someone upstream from the provider such as SolusVM. You go into the provider's panel, click the distro and version (e.g., "Debian 10") that you want, and usually in less than a minute, your VPS is setup. Configuration choi...

Installing Linux on Your VPS: Template or ISO?

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