Each desktop or notebook or web server is run by an Operating System - the low-level software which communicates with the hardware equipment, including peripherals such as a mouse or a printer, along with any applications that are currently installed on your system. Any program input using 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 server, every single app runs within the parameters defined by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etcetera. This goes for both standard Internet site scripts and server-side software such as a media server. If a virtual server is generated on a physical one, there can be two independent Operating Systems, named guest OS and host OS, so you will be able to set up a different software environment on the same machine.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

If you choose one of our VPS server packages, you'll have 3 different Operating Systems to select from - CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. They are all Linux releases and we offer them instead of offering just one OS, as the applications that you may wish to run on the server could have specific requirements for the software environment. Each of the three has certain pros with regard to the available packages that you may afterwards install, but what is common between them is that they're really stable and dependable and have huge communities that support them. The web hosting Control Panel alternatives for the VPS accounts depend on your Operating System choice, in order to provide you with more flexibility. When you order the virtual server with one OS and you need a different one later, our technical support team can easily reinstall the VPS with the new one in a matter of minutes. We also offer the option to maintain the Operating System on your server up-to-date on a weekly basis.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

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 totally free and they won't increase the price of your new web hosting server, but also because they are outstandingly stable and secure. Each of them is supported by a large community of web developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from many hundreds of software packages that you could install on your server if the application that you intend to employ has specific requirements. The Operating System will also determine what hosting Control Panel you can use because the Control Panels that we offer run on particular OSs only and because we would like to give you as much freedom as possible, we offer several OSs and multiple Control Panels. In case you get a server with a certain Operating System, we will change it upon request in case it turns out that you'll need alternative one. We can also keep the OS updated on a weekly basis as part of the additional Managed Services upgrade.