An Operating System is the fundamental software which controls a computer. It takes care of the way the hardware functions, the communication with peripheral devices including a monitor, a printer or a keyboard, the allocation of memory between the installed applications, along with the prioritization of applications when multiple ones run at the same time. Any program that is installed on a computer system operates by sending requests to the OS for different services by using an application program interface (API). The communication with the OS can be done through a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a command line. In the hosting world, the Operating System is what controls a hosting server and all the software installed on it, which includes not only website scripts, but also any other application for instance a VOIP or a game server. If there are virtual machines created, they use a guest OS that is run on the server host OS.

Multiple OS in VPS Hosting

If you decide to acquire one of our virtual private server plans, you'll be able to select one of the three Linux distributions which we provide for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are among the most widely used and most dependable 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 need to install some application with particular requirements regarding the packages that need to be present on the web server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one of them you may use depends on the OS that you've selected. We leave the chance to change the server Operating System open, so if you want to use software that requires an OS different from the one you have, we can always reinstall the VPS. We can also keep the OS up-to-date on a weekly basis by installing all of the security updates that may be released.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Web Hosting

The dedicated servers that we offer come with as many as three different Operating Systems because we want to offer you more flexible solutions that will allow you to install and run any kind of web software irrespective of its system requirements. Your choices are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these three OSs are among the most dependable and risk-free ones, not mentioning that they do not have any kind of license fees. All three have thousands of developers that have created a huge number of software packages that you could install and use on your hosting server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one you can use will depend on the Operating System that you select when you register. If you need some other OS later, it will not be a problem since we can always reinstall your server. With our Managed Services package we can also keep your OS secure by updating it every week with all patches that are available for it.