Booting a VPS From Your Own Custom ISO

Our standard templates cover the operating systems most people need. If yours isn't one of them — a specific Linux distribution, a particular version, something niche — you can boot your VPS from your own ISO instead of opening a ticket and waiting.

How It Works

On your VPS's Manage page, open the Manage → Custom ISO section and paste a direct download link to an .iso file. We check the link actually points to a real, public .iso file of a reasonable size before starting — private addresses and lookalike links are rejected outright, since this download happens from inside our infrastructure, not your browser.

Once accepted, the ISO downloads to your VPS's node and attaches automatically as a virtual CD the moment it's ready — no need to keep the page open.

Installing From It

1. Wait for the ISO to show as attached (usually a minute or two, depending on file size).
2. Restart your VPS from the power controls — it boots from the ISO first.
3. Open the Console tab and install like you would on physical hardware — a normal installer screen.
4. Once installed, remove the ISO from the same tab so future restarts boot from the disk again, not back into the installer.

Limits Worth Knowing

• One custom ISO at a time per VPS — attaching a new one replaces whatever was there.
• There's a maximum file size (check your plan; it's listed alongside the other specs).
• A reinstall or a plan change clears any attached custom ISO along with everything else on disk — see our reinstall guide for what else that affects.
• We don't provide install support for operating systems we don't officially offer — you're on your own for anything specific to that OS's own installer, but the console and file manager work exactly the same either way.

This is genuinely the same mechanism used to install any OS on real hardware, just without needing physical access to a server — useful for anything from a specific BSD variant to a Linux distro tuned for one particular workload.