An Operating System is the fundamental software that controls a computer system. It handles how your hardware behaves, the communication with peripherals like a monitor, a printer or a keyboard, the allocation of memory between your applications, and the prioritization of apps if several run at once. Each program that is installed on a desktop or a notebook works by sending requests to the OS for various services by using an application program interface (API). The communication with the OS can be done using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a command line. In the Internet hosting field, the OS is what controls a server as well as all of the software installed on it, which includes not only website scripts, but also every other application for example a VOIP or a game server. In case there're virtual machines created, they employ a guest OS that is run on the server host OS.

Multiple OS in VPS Hosting

If you decide to go for one of our virtual private server plans, you shall be able to choose one of the three Linux distributions that we provide for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are among the most popular and most dependable server OSs available and we offer them so that you have a choice for the software environment of your machine if you need to install some app with particular requirements in terms of the packages that have to be present on the web hosting server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one of them you could use depends on the OS that you've chosen. We leave the chance to replace 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 weekly by installing all of the security updates that may be released.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Web Hosting

The dedicated servers we offer can be installed with three different Operating Systems since we want to give you more versatile solutions that will let you install and run any type of web software irrespective of its system requirements. The choices are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these 3 OSs are among the most reliable and secure ones, not mentioning that they don't have any license costs. All three have numerous developers that have created a huge number of software packages that you can install and use on your server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one you can use depends on the Operating System that you select when you sign up. If you need another OS subsequently, it won't be a problem as we can always reinstall your machine. With our Managed Services package we can also keep your OS secure by updating it every week with any patches which are available for it.