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Why is the Archlinux image missing from the control panel?

Posted August 25, 2014 10.5k views

Hi,

Why is the Arch image missing from the ‘droplet creation page’? It was there before.
I couldn’t find anything about in in the blog or on the support, and if the decided to stop the support for Arch (witch I hope they didn’t), why did they do that ?

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radriaanse96 August 25, 2014

ok, that’s a shame, but I understand. Let’s switch over to CentOS then.

Thanks for your quick answer!

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thacker.devel August 25, 2014

Also Arch Linux is Bleeding edge, which is never a good idea for a server.

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gfl3162 September 24, 2014

Try out this script! It converts a Debian 7.0 installation into a fully-updated Arch installation. Feedback appreciated!

https://github.com/gh2o/digitalocean-debian-to-arch

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asb August 25, 2014

DigitalOcean no longer provides an Arch Linux image. This decision was made for a number of reasons, but primarily it was due to lack of uptake by users compared to the maintenance burden of supporting a rolling release distro. Unfortunately, Arch Linux never accounted for more than ~1% of the droplets that were spun up. While I can’t give you exact numbers, it’s safe to say that it accounted for more than 1% of support tickets.

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  • luchador October 21, 2014

    Then it would be more logical to still have Archlinux, without maintenance support. Just give the choice to people, explain the reason, clearly make it their responsibility at all.

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brooqs June 11, 2015

i using this but one day some service working very well some day down i think converting not stable solution.

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