An Operating System is the fundamental software that controls a computer system. It takes care of how the hardware behaves, the communication with peripherals such as a monitor, a printer or a keyboard, the allocation of memory between applications, and the prioritization of apps in case several run simultaneously. Each and every program that is installed on a notebook or a desktop operates by sending requests to the OS for different services via an application program interface (API). The interaction with the OS can be achieved using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a command line. In the web hosting field, the Operating System is what controls a web server along with any software installed on it, which includes not only website scripts, but, in addition any other application such as a VOIP or a game server. When there are virtual machines created, they employ a guest OS which runs on the server host OS.

Multiple OS in VPS Web Hosting

If you decide to buy one of our virtual private server plans, you shall be able to choose one of the three Linux releases which we provide for the Operating System of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're among the most preferred and most dependable server OSs 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 would like to install some application with precise requirements with regards to the packages that need to be present on the web server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one of them you can use will depend on the OS that you have selected. We leave the chance to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use an app that requires an OS different from the one you have, we can always re-install the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing all of the security updates that may be released.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers Hosting

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