[deanhills]

Why don’t you try CentOS 7 first? That’s what i use on my VPS 9 which seems to work just fine. Not sure if you’re going to have the same experience due to the whole virmach not properly upgrading your VPS issue. But it doesn’t harm giving it a try. Who knows, maybe the issues you were experiencing are because of CentOS 6.5 being so old rather than an issue of upgrading the VPS properly on virmach’s end.

CentOS 7 didn't work. And during my last successful try with my VPS I learned it was because the new IP they gave me with the upgrade had to have been a protected IP. The Admin Panel discourages download of CentOS 7 for protected IPs. The moment I started with CentOS 6.5 earlier in the week, I was able to work with my VPS again. But yes, I totally agree with you. Some of the issues I was having could be as a result of CentOS 6.5 being dated. I'm just too happy however that I'm up and running with my VPS again. I'm hoping that once the upgrades have been consolidated that the Virmach Tech staff will be able to get their OS sorted out and that we'll have an option for CentOS 8 as well. I'm sure they must be well aware of the shortcomings - particularly with Ubuntu.

I'm also very tempted to change OS to Debian. But for now I've got limited time, particularly Internet availability so am doing the best I can with what I have available to me, instead of trying to work with what I don't have. If that makes sense to you at all.