Of course since RH took over CentOS this probably doesn’t apply to that. Rocky and Alma came later?
RHEL is not CentOS. They are compatible, and you can easily convert CentOS to RHEL. But, they are not the same. If you’re on CentOS 7, you’re running out of time to get off of it. One option would be to convert to RHEL (which is free for some users in some circumstances, though I’m not sure if that covers ELS…in the case of Ubuntu, to get support beyond the EOL for a given LTS release, you have to pay $75/year per server).
That said, we won’t support OSes beyond the standard EOL. CentOS 7 is old as hell. It shipped with PHP 5. Almost none of the services support SNI. The Perl version is 12 years old. The Python is old. The NodeJS is old. Trying to install any modern web app on CentOS 7 is a story of endless pain and suffering. We won’t go out of our way to break it, but it’s a risk and an inconvenience to run a very old distro, so we recommend you try to upgrade your OS every four-five years or so, at least. It’s an afternoon project for most people, maybe a weekend if you have a lot of custom web apps (and you’re the one who developed it or had a hand in it…longer if it was developed by a third party you no longer have a relationship with, but that’s dangerous, too).
You’re vague on the details. WikiPedia has a good explanation of the timeline. CentOS - Wikipedia
Rocky is the spiritual successor to CentOS, having been founded by some of the same people who founded CentOS. Alma is from the CloudLinux folks, who also have a history maintaining a Linux distro based on RHEL. I think both can be trusted to make a decent OS that’s compatible-ish with RHEL (but compatibility isn’t the biggest reason to choose an EL…it’s the long lifecycle…as shown by this thread where people are trying to find ways to keep using a ten year old OS). Rocky and Alma are mostly interchangeable and we treat them mostly the same (as each other and as RHEL) in the Webmin package, and the Virtualmin installer.
I am now disinterested in CentOS 7 and this is the news report from a trusted source that I had glanced through.
SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7 is a frictionless solution that provides customers with updates and security patches for their existing CentOS system, with no migration whatsoever.
But you are right, Joe. C7 is EoL.
Read the not-so-fine print.
“SUSE, however, charges a fee. The service, starting at $25 per server/instance per year with a minimum spend of $2,500, includes long-life updates that will continue until June 30, 2028.”
i will buy new vps with a new systeme ( Rocky 9 or Alma 9 )
but what if my back up the old vps not working with new one
what should i do ?
Keep the old server on while you check the new server is all working as it should.
i buy that server with webmin + lama
and not found any thing
maybe i just install Apache, MariaDB, PHP ?
did i install it correctly any one can help me
No!
If you want a web hosting system, get a minimal supported OS (do not get preinstalled Webmin, or anything else), and then install Virtualmin according to our documentation.
Also, please don’t hijack other people’s threads with unrelated questions. Make your own topic for your questions, and any follow up questions about your new install.
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