Pick any distribution. Get root in 30 seconds. Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, FreeBSD — all running on bare-metal-fast NVMe SSDs across 20+ data centers worldwide.
Every Linux VPS plan ships with full root access, your choice of distribution, and a real KVM virtual machine — not a container, not a slice.
One-click install during deploy, or upload a custom ISO on Pro and Premium. Your kernel, your packages, your call.
20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS — the universal default for cloud workloads.
11 (Bullseye), 12 (Bookworm) — rock-stable, light footprint, server's best friend.
8, 9 — RHEL-binary-compatible, free, the proper CentOS successor.
8, 9 — community-driven RHEL clone, perfect for enterprise migration.
Latest stable — bleeding-edge packages with sane defaults.
Rolling release — for when you want exactly what you want, nothing more.
13.x, 14.x — UNIX done right, ZFS, jails, and unmatched network stack.
Upload your own installer on Pro and Premium plans. Anything that boots, runs.
A Linux VPS at OliveVPS isn't a glorified container or a shared-tenant slice. It's a real virtual machine.
You're uid 0. Install anything. Modify /etc/sysctl.conf, recompile your kernel, mount NFS, run iptables. We don't second-guess your config.
KVM-in-KVM works out of the box. Run Docker, Podman, LXC, K3s, Vagrant, even nested KVM hypervisors — all with hardware acceleration intact.
Want a specific kernel module? Realtime kernel? XanMod for low-latency? Compile and boot it. We don't enforce a vendor kernel.
NVMe storage exposed as a block device. Format with ext4, XFS, ZFS, btrfs, whatever. Add LVM, encrypted volumes, RAID inside the VM if you want.
NGINX, Apache, Caddy. Run dozens of low-traffic sites, or a handful of high-traffic ones.
Django, Flask, FastAPI, Rails, Node, Laravel. Anything that talks HTTP runs here.
Self-host services, run a small Kubernetes (k3s/k8s), build CI runners.
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB. NVMe IOPS make even busy DBs fly.
WireGuard, OpenVPN, Tailscale relays. Pick any region for the exit point.
Postfix, Dovecot, Mailcow. Fixed IPs, no SMTP port blocking.
Telegram bots, scrapers, queue workers, cron jobs. Always-on for $3.99/mo.
Minecraft, CS, Factorio, ARK. Low-latency, dedicated cores, full UDP support.
If you don't know, pick Ubuntu 22.04 LTS — the largest community, most tutorials, easiest package availability. If you want long-term support and minimum drama, Debian 12. If you're coming from CentOS/RHEL workloads, AlmaLinux 9 or Rocky Linux 9.
Yes — you're root from the moment your VPS deploys. No "managed" surprises. Install kernel modules, modify sysctl, compile from source, do whatever you need.
Yes. KVM gives you full nested-virtualization support, so Docker, Podman, LXC, k3s, k8s, even nested KVM all run with hardware acceleration intact.
Every Linux VPS gets a routed /64 IPv6 subnet at no extra cost. That's roughly 18 quintillion addresses you can hand out to containers, VPN clients, or test traffic.
Yes — on Pro and Premium plans. Upload an ISO via the panel, attach it as a virtual CD-ROM, boot, install, done. Common uses: pfSense, OPNsense, Talos, RancherOS, custom hardened images.