Expansion on Arch OpenVZ VPS plan.

I want to expand on my vision of what the OpenVZ server will do, I am pretty sure it is possible to get manjaroiso working on something with access to pacman.

The reason I am setting up this server is upon request, nobody asked me to set up a server but people did want me to update my Manjaro respin, This video caused a whole bunch of people to request an updated spin. I do not see the demand for this changing in the future.

Any of you who know me know that I love tech but do not love when it eats up all my time, I like to expedite things so they go faster. Automating tasks is a great way to do this.

Idea for the OpenVZ Server.

Since OpenVZ did not do what I wanted I needed to get the KVM server. That did not mean I wanted the OpenVZ server to go to waste. Here is my plan for the OpenVZ server.

It will run Arch Linux and be used for manjaroiso building and hosting. Having the host build the image makes sense to me because then I do not have to upload them and thus making more frequent builds would be a possibility.

It would also allow me to automate much more of the process and make keeping the builds up to date much easier!

 

OpenVZ vs KVM VPS

So the host that I choose to go with for my VPS said that Gentoo would work with OpenVZ. There is a version of Gentoo that ‘partially’ works to allow me access, it gives me access but the build is so old that it requires maintenance to operate correctly.

Gentoo being source based with OpenVZ means I was attempting to fight a losing battle, I should have purchased a KVM based VPS instead of a OpenVZ version. Now I know the limitations of OpenVZ!

The good thing is that although it will take a few ours to provision the change over to KVM from OpenVZ, The extra charge it will cost me is marginal at most. A few dollars a month which is acceptable to me if it allows me to run the system I want to on my server.

I could suck it up and accept any one of the binary based distributions that they offer but I decided for a server Gentoo seemed the most reasonable option available to me. I believe that Gentoo will provide the best ratio in terms of being rolling release and having up to date software as well as being the most stable of options since the packages are built with intentions of being a server instead of catch all package that may do more/less than I would like.

Arch is the only other option they provide that I find at all reasonable in terms of package management, My issue with Arch is that when I used to run it on my desktop I was lazy, I did not like having to watch the site and update at the same time. The result would be a broken Arch due to my own Laziness. I could certainly see this happening on this server if I used it long term.

I do not believe that this would happen on a Gentoo based system.