ArubaCloud offers excellent low-cost VPS services, starting at 1 € / month (at least when this article was created, feb. 2018, see ArubaCloud limitations). This article refers to installing Slackware on CloudVPS hosting service, which is based on VMware virtualization hypervisor and uses several OS templates, Slackware not being among them. As a low-cost service, custom OS installation, management with VMware Client are not available. You can request a free trial here.

This guide does not cover Cloud Pro or other services by ArubaCloud.

Assuming you want a Slackware server hosted at ArubaCloud, here is what you need:

• ArubaCloud account
• enough credit to creat the CloudVPS you want.
• a FTP hosting space with several GB of available space and reasonable speed.
• VMware Player on your computer and at least as much free space as the CloudVPS virtual HDD
• a Live CD such as SLAX

Once you get your free trial voucher or you purchased credit, you can follow ArubaCloud's web interface to create the CloudVPS of your choice. Using the free trial voucher you can get 2 months free trial for CloudVPS Small (1xCPU, 1GB RAM, 1xETH, 20GB HDD, 2TB traffic/month).

1. load credit into your account (free trial voucher or purchase credit)
2. create VPS based on predefined OS template

This guide has been written using an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS template.

Having the VPS up and running, and after receiving your access credentials, first write down some key information:

• HDD size
• Public IP (of the VPS), including netmask, gateway

Log in to the CloudVPS using SSH. Ip addr list to show IP and netmask. Ip route list to show default gateway. Cat /etc/resolv.conf to show nameservers

* ArubaCloud by Aruba S.p.A. (IT) - cloud services provider.

* Originally written by Andrei B.