An Operating System is the basic software that manages a computer system. It takes care of how the hardware behaves, the communication with peripheral devices such as a monitor, a printer or a keyboard, the allocation of memory between apps, plus the prioritization of apps in case several run at the same time. Each and every program that's installed on a desktop or a notebook functions by sending requests to the OS for different services using an application program interface (API). The communication with the OS can be performed through a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a command line. In the hosting world, the OS is what runs a server as well as all the software installed on it, which includes not only website scripts, but also any other application for example a VOIP or a game server. In case there're virtual machines created, they use a guest OS that is run on the server host OS.

Multiple OS in VPS Web Hosting

If you decide to purchase one of our virtual private server packages, you shall be able to select one of the three Linux distributions that we provide for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are among the most popular and most stable server OSs out there and we offer them in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine in case that you want to install some app with specific requirements with regards to the packages that have to be present on the hosting server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one of them you can use will depend on the OS that you have selected. We leave the possibility to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use an application that requires an OS different from the one you already have, we can always reinstall the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date on a weekly basis by installing all the security updates that may be released.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers Hosting

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server solutions - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they are completely free so they will not increase the low price of your new web hosting server, but also because they are really secure and stable. Each of them is supported by a big community of developers, so you'll be able to choose from a myriad of software packages that you can install on your server in case the application that you want to work with has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what internet hosting Control Panel you can use as the Control Panels that we offer run on particular OSs only and because we would like to provide you with as much flexibility as possible, we offer a couple of OSs and multiple Control Panels. If you choose a server with a given OS, we could change it upon request in the event that it turns out that you will need another one. We could also keep your OS updated weekly as a part of our additional Managed Services upgrade.