Each and every desktop or notebook or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program which interacts with the hardware equipment, including peripheral devices such as a mouse and a printer, together with any apps that are present on the 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 OS. On a server, any app runs within the parameters set by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, and so on. This is valid for both standard website scripts and server-side software such as a media server. If a virtual server is set up on a physical one, there can be two independent Operating Systems, named guest OS and host OS, which means that you can set up a different software environment on the very same machine.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

If you pick one of our VPS server solutions, you'll have 3 different Operating Systems to pick from - CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. They're all Linux releases and we offer them rather than offering just one OS, since the applications that you might choose to run on the server could have specific requirements regarding the software environment. Each of these three has some pros in terms of the available plans that you can afterwards install, but what's common between them is the fact that they are very secure and dependable and have large communities that support them. The hosting Control Panel options for the VPS accounts depend on your OS choice, in order to give you more flexibility. In case you order the virtual server with one OS and you need another one later, our tech support team can easily reinstall the VPS with the new one in a matter of minutes. We also offer the option to keep the Operating System on your server up-to-date weekly.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server solutions - 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 low price of your new hosting server, but also because they are extremely secure and stable. Each one of them is supported by a huge community of developers, so you will be able to choose from a myriad of software packages that you could install on your server in case the app that you would like to use has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what web hosting Control Panel you can use as the Control Panels that we offer run on specific OSs only and because we would like to provide you with as much adaptability as possible, we offer multiple OSs and multiple Control Panels. In case you choose a server with a certain OS, we can change it upon request if it turns out that you need another one. We could also keep the OS updated weekly as a part of our useful Managed Services upgrade.