I'm using hostinger, they've got CentOS (which is basically Red Hat without the hat, no really), Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky Linux, CloudLinux, Kali Linux, openSUSE, Arch Linux, AlmaLinux Alpine Linux, and Fedora Cloud.
And that's just the bare OS images! They've got other stuff also. Anyway, more to the original post, if you go with a bare OS at Hostinger you can pretty much put stuff where you want. On Mon, 2026-03-09 at 14:38 -0700, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote: > That’s how cPanel has done it for years. > > Most hosting companies I’m aware of use CentOS, which I think is a > version of RHEL. > > Google says Ubuntu Server. I haven’t ever encountered it. > > When I did my own hosting, I used Debian. CentOS was way more than I > needed, and I found Debian a lot easier to work with. > > My current hosting provider runs CentOS. Most of the ones in the past > that I’ve had did as well. > > They kind of move like a herd, and like to stick with what works and > everybody knows, which has been CentOS since the 90’s AFAIK. > > Go to some hosting sites and see what they say. > > -David Schwartz > > > > > > On Mar 9, 2026, at 10:19 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > AI is telling me that the commercial hosting companies configure > > hosting like : /home/user/public_html This is for an Ubuntu server > > using PHP-FPM (each vhost has a unique pool user that is also ssh > > and sudo). > > > > Your Thoughts? > > > > Keith > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
