A look at Linux distributions and their share of our VPSes. Debian and Ubuntu lead by a clear margin, running on three quarters of our VPSes.
At conferences, people quite often ask which distributions we offer and what proportion of our VPSes run each one. So I put together some statistics based on the installed templates. Here are the results:
| Distribution | Share | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | 1.3% | 15 |
| CentOS | 10.1% | 112 |
| Debian | 53.3% | 593 |
| Fedora | 1.2% | 13 |
| Gentoo | 3.8% | 42 |
| OpenSUSE | 0.5% | 6 |
| Scientific | 7.8% | 87 |
| Ubuntu | 21.9% | 244 |
As you can see, Debian leads by a clear margin, followed some way behind by Ubuntu. Together, these two deb distributions are used by 75% of our users. The rpm distributions CentOS, Fedora and Scientific also have a substantial share, together accounting for about 19%. The other distributions divide up the remainder.
