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Basic Info

  
Year Released: 2004 2003 1993 2003 2002 1993 1994
Based On: Debian Red Hat (none) RHEL (none) SLS Slackware
Novice Learning Curve: Gradual Moderate Steep Moderate Very Steep Very Steep Moderate
Number of Packages: > 23,000 ~ 8,000 > 26,000 ~ 1,500 > 12,000 ~ 550 > 22,000
   

OS Templates

  
OpenVZ Platform: Available Available Available Available Available Available Available
Xen Platform: Available Available Available Available Available Not Available Not Available
LAMP: Available Available Available Available Not Available Not Available Not Available
Ruby on Rails: Available Available Available Available Not Available Not Available Not Available
 

While LAMP VPS and RoR VPS OS templates are not offered for Gentoo, Slackware, or openSUSE, you will always have the ability to manually configure your virtual private server with these popular development frameworks as needed.

Control Panels

  
WHM / cPanel: Not Available Available Not Available Available Not Available Not Available Available
DirectAdmin: Not Available Available Available Available Not Available Not Available Not Available
   
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