> I have a cloud server , but my debian seems a cloned image > and not a new installation.
Common for a lot of providers; they create a "master image" and just allow that to be written to a newly provisioned server. > My provider doesnt provide a panel to choose an image at will to > install. A choice that i had when i had a virtual server.. Different companies provide different options; if this is important to you then you should look at alternatives. > Is it standard for a cloud server provider to not giving you a panel to > install at will an OS image you want? I mean are the technical reasons ? Some do, some don't. As for technical reasons there is often no reason against it, but if a hosting company provides "standard" images that means fewer people can mess-up installing a system via KVM, and an ISO. It lowers support-costs. > Are cloud servers more difficult to handle than virtual servers? Cloud servers and virtual servers are different names for the same thing. How easy/hard they are depends on your skills and the facilities that the hosting company offers. (i.e. Do they let you login via VNC / similar if you screwep your kernel, or firewall all traffic out.) Steve -- https://steve.fi/
