Scientific Linux Cloud Hosting

Summary

SL is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters.

The base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled from source.

Our main goal for the base distribution is to have everything compatible with Enterprise, with only a few minor additions or changes. An example of of items that were added are Alpine, and OpenAFS.

Our secondary goal is to allow easy customization for a site, without disturbing the Scientific Linux base. The various labs are able to add their own modifications to their own site areas. By the magic of scripts, and the anaconda installer, each site is to be able to create their own distributions with minimal effort. Or, if a users wishes, they can simply install the base SL release.

Deploy Scientific Linux in Minutes

Using our service, you can deploy any of our Scientific Linux VPS images in just minutes, to any of our dual-stack IPv4+IPv6 worldwide clouds! Simply sign up, go through our simple 3 step wizard to specify location, root password, and other paramaters and you'll have ping/ssh in a few minutes.