I migrated my vServer from Debian to Gentoo. Okay the question is of course:

“Why?”
Well, I have been using Gentoo on my desktop for more than 4.5 years. I prefer Gentoo because of its flexibility and I do not really like Debian as well. There are also odds with Gentoo, you have to compile the whole system and that is not optimal on a vServer with not so much power but it is possible to compile everything at home and then install the binary packages on the vServer.

“How to install Gentoo on a vServer?”
My vServer is hosted by server4you.de and they do not provide Gentoo as a server image. I used this HowTo and adopted it to my needs. In short:

• you have to start the rescue system of your vServer.
• remove the old system
• copy the Gentoo vserver stage3 in place
• setup the network and sshd
• restart the vServer

Well, that’s it and you can setup everything else.