Every single personal computer or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program that interacts with the hardware, including peripherals such as a mouse or a printer, along with any apps that are present on the system. Any program input through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is processed by sending an Application Program Interface (API) request to the Operating System. On a web server, each application runs within the parameters established by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etc. This goes for both standard site scripts and server-side software like a media server. If a virtual server is generated on a physical one, there can be two independent Operating Systems, called guest OS and host OS, so you can set up a different software environment on the very same machine.

Multiple OS in VPS Hosting

If you decide to acquire one of our virtual private server packages, you'll be able to choose one of the three Linux releases that we offer for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're among the most widely used and most reliable server OSs available on the market and we offer them so that you have a choice for the software environment of your machine in case that you need to install some application with particular requirements in terms of the packages that have to be present on the server. We also offer three internet hosting Control Panels and which one of them you can use will depend on the OS that you have chosen. We leave the possibility to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use software that requires an OS different from the one that's already present, we can always reinstall the VPS. We can also keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing any security updates which may be released.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Web 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're cost-free and they won't increase the price of your new server, but also because they are very stable and secure. Each of them is backed up by a big community of web developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from thousands of software packages that you can install on your server if the app that you intend to work with 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 several OSs and multiple Control Panels. In case you get a server with a certain Operating System, we can change it upon request in case it turns out that you need another one. We can also keep the OS updated on a weekly basis as part of our optional Managed Services upgrade.