An Operating System is the software which interacts with the hardware of a PC and functions as the intermediary between applications and the hardware, including peripherals such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run an app, it transfers requests to the OS through an API (Application Program Interface) and the communication is done through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Identical to a personal computer, web servers also use an Operating System which serves as a host for all of the software installed on them, including script apps or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, etcetera. A virtual machine can be set up on a physical one, so you can install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment in contrast to the physical server host Operating System.

Multiple OS in VPS

In case you decide to acquire one of our virtual private server packages, you'll be able to select one of the three Linux releases which we provide for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're among the most popular and most reliable server OSs available and we offer them in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine if you intend to install some app with specific requirements with regards to the packages that should be present on the web server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one of them you'll be able to use depends on the OS that you have chosen. We leave the chance to change the server Operating System open, so when you want to use an app 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 any security updates which may be released.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server packages - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they are free so they won't increase the cost of your new server, but also because they are very secure and stable. Each of them is backed up by a huge community of developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from a myriad of software packages that you could install on your server if the app that you intend to use has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what internet hosting Control Panel you can use because the Control Panels that we offer run on specific OSs only and because we would like to give you as much flexibility as possible, we offer multiple OSs and multiple Control Panels. In case you get a server with a certain Operating System, we can change it upon request in the event that it turns out that you need another one. We can also keep the OS updated weekly as part of the useful Managed Services upgrade.