An Operating System is the basic software which controls a computer. It takes care of the way the hardware behaves, the communication with peripherals including a monitor, a printer or a keyboard, the allocation of memory between applications, plus the prioritization of applications when several run simultaneously. Any program that is installed on a PC works by sending requests to the OS for various services via an application program interface (API). The interaction with the OS can be done via a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a command line. In the Internet hosting world, the Operating System is what runs a hosting server together with all of the software installed on it, which includes not only website scripts, but also any other application such as a VOIP or a game server. If there're virtual machines created, they use a guest OS that runs on the server host OS.

Multiple OS in VPS Web Hosting

In case you choose to acquire one of our virtual private server packages, you will be able to pick one of the three Linux distributions that we supply for the Operating System of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are among the most well-known and most stable server OSs available on the market 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 application with specific requirements in terms of the packages that need to be present on the hosting server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one of them you'll be able to use depends on the OS that you have picked. We leave the possibility to change the server Operating System open, so if you want to use software that requires an OS different from the one you already have, we can always re-install 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 available.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers Hosting

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server packages - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they are absolutely free so they will not increase the price of your new hosting server, but also because they are exceptionally stable and secure. Each one of them is backed up by a large community of web developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from thousands of software packages that you may install on your server if the application that you would like to work with has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what web hosting Control Panel you can use since the Control Panels that we offer run on particular OSs only and since we would like to provide you with as much freedom as possible, we offer a couple of OSs and multiple Control Panels. In case you get a server with a certain OS, we will change it upon request in case it turns out that you will need alternative one. We will also keep the OS updated on a weekly basis as a part of our useful Managed Services upgrade.