{"id":62328,"date":"2021-09-13T04:33:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/?p=62328"},"modified":"2023-03-16T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T15:48:14","slug":"scalahosting-announces-support-for-almalinux-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/scalahosting-announces-support-for-almalinux-8\/","title":{"rendered":"ScalaHosting Announces Support for  AlmaLinux 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in December 2020, Red Hat announced that support for one of their popular Linux distributions, <strong>CentOS 8<\/strong>, would be discontinued effectively from<strong> 31 December 2021<\/strong>. This was pretty short notice to announce end-of-life news for such a product, which led to online businesses, data centers, and hosts scrambling for alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why is CentOS Support Discontinued?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In its essence, CentOS is an open-source distro of <strong>Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)<\/strong>, actively developed by software giants <strong>Red Hat<\/strong>. The Linux distribution quickly became one of the top choices for <strong>hosting providers <\/strong>and<strong> individual server customers<\/strong> alike.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as Red Hat explained, they will turn more focus on the ongoing development of <strong>CentOS Stream<\/strong>, a <strong>more developer-friendly distribution<\/strong> with <strong>added stability<\/strong> and <strong>prioritized feature releases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The market was now open to CentOS alternatives, and one such quickly came in the form of <strong>AlmaLinux<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is AlmaLinux?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>AlmaLinux serves as a direct successor of CentOS, developed by the team at <strong>CloudLinux<\/strong>. This brand new operating system offers <strong>enterprise-grade quality<\/strong> paired with a <strong>forever-free billing scheme<\/strong>. The solution is <strong>completely open-source<\/strong> and <strong>1:1 binary compatible with RHEL<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AlmaLinux got its first stable release in <strong>March 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why AlmaLinux?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>AlmaLinux may be a relatively new OS choice, but the technologies it&#8217;s based on are already well-established. This carries some imminent benefits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Easy transition from CentOS 8;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ready to handle high workloads<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strong community<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Continuous support<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No licensing fees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ScalaHosting and AlmaLinux<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All new ScalaHosting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/cloud-vps-hosting.html\"><strong>self-managed VPS<\/strong><\/a> clients already have the option to set up a server with <strong>AlmaLinux 8<\/strong>. Additionally, CentOS users can continue to utilize <strong>CentOS 7<\/strong> and <strong>CentOS 8<\/strong> until their end-of-life cycles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you want to test AlmaLinux or any other popular Linux OS distribution &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/contact-us.html\"><strong>contact the Scala Support Team<\/strong><\/a>, and we will be glad to point you in the right direction!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in December 2020, Red Hat announced that support for one of their popular Linux distributions, CentOS 8, would be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":62330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62335,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62328\/revisions\/62335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}