Rocky Linux 9 VPS in France
French Rocky Linux 9 VPS: the 100% RHEL/CentOS-compatible successor on KVM infrastructure.
Starting at €4.99/mo
Introduction
Rocky Linux 9 is the community successor to CentOS, created by Gregory Kurtzer (the original CentOS founder) after CentOS Linux pivoted to CentOS Stream. The distribution is 100% binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: RHEL packages, enterprise tools (cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk) and Red Hat-certified applications run without changes.
By-Hoster offers Rocky Linux 9 on French KVM VPS with enterprise NVMe SSD, root SSH access, dedicated IPv4 + IPv6 and unlimited 1 Gbps bandwidth. Infrastructure in our DC-FR_NA(01) datacenter in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, operated directly by our team.
Technical stack: Linux kernel 5.14, PHP 8.x via the Remi repo, Python 3.9 (3.11/3.12 available), Apache 2.4, Nginx, MariaDB 10.5, PostgreSQL 13/15, SELinux preconfigured in enforcing mode. Community support until May 2032. From €4.99/mo, no contract, 48-hour money-back guarantee.
Included features
Rocky 9 pre-installed
Official image, ready in 60 seconds.
Support until 2032
Long-term security updates.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, 100% binary-compatible. RHEL 9 packages work without changes.
Both are 1:1 binary-compatible RHEL 9 clones. Rocky Linux is run by the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (founded by Gregory Kurtzer, original CentOS creator). AlmaLinux is run by CloudLinux Inc. In practice the choice is interchangeable: identical packages, same lifecycles. Rocky has broader adoption in hosting, AlmaLinux is slightly faster to publish patches.
EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) adds packages not included in RHEL/Rocky. Install: dnf install epel-release then dnf update. Great for htop, fail2ban, certbot, neofetch, ncdu and many other day-to-day admin tools.
Yes. Rocky ships a migrate2rocky script to move from CentOS, RHEL or AlmaLinux to Rocky without reinstall. Red Hat ships convert2rhel for the opposite direction. All these migrations preserve your data, configs and applications.
Yes, without hesitation. Rocky Linux runs in production at many companies and institutions (universities, banks, hosting providers). A 10-year support cycle (May 2022 to May 2032) makes it a solid pick for servers that need long-term stability: SaaS back-end, databases, shared hosting, internal infrastructure.
cPanel/WHM, DirectAdmin, Plesk, CyberPanel, HestiaCP, Webmin, Cockpit (pre-installed for system management). Our support team ships install guides for the main panels and can help with configuration.