Every desktop or notebook or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program which interacts with the hardware equipment, including peripherals such as a mouse and a printer, along with any applications that are installed on your system. Any program input through 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 web server, each app runs within the parameters defined by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etcetera. This is valid for both standard Internet site scripts and server-side software such as a media server. When a virtual server is created on a physical one, there can be two separate Operating Systems, referred to as guest OS and host OS, which means that you will be able to set up a different software environment on the very same machine.

Multiple OS in VPS Hosting

If you decide to purchase one of our virtual private server plans, you'll be able to choose one of the three Linux distributions that we offer for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. These are among the most popular and most dependable server OSs available on the market and we offer them in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine if you intend to install some application with particular requirements in terms of the packages that have to be present on the web 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 an app that requires an OS different from the one you already have, we can always reinstall the VPS. We can also keep the OS up-to-date on a weekly basis by installing any security updates that may be released.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Web 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 100 % free and they won't increase the cost of your new server, but also because they are exceptionally secure and stable. Each of them is backed up by a vast community of developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from a large number software packages that you could install on your server in case the application that you want to work with has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what hosting Control Panel you can use as the Control Panels that we offer run on specific OSs only and because we want to give you as much flexibility as possible, we offer multiple 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 need another one. We can also keep your OS updated on a weekly basis as a part of the additional Managed Services upgrade.