An Operating System is the software that interacts with the hardware of a computer and works as the intermediary between all the applications and the hardware, which includes peripheral devices such as a printer, a mouse or a keyboard. When you run an app, it sends requests to the OS through an API (Application Program Interface) and the contact is done via a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Just like a personal computer, web hosting servers also have an Operating System which serves as a host for the software installed on them, which includes script applications or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and so on. A virtual machine can be created on a physical one, so you can install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment compared to the physical server host OS.

Multiple OS in VPS

In case you pick one of our virtual private server packages, you will have three different Operating Systems to choose from - CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. They are all Linux distributions and we offer them instead of offering just one OS, because the applications that you might want to run on the server could have specific requirements about the software environment. Each of these three has certain advantages with regard to the available packages that you may afterwards install, but what is common between them is that they are very stable and dependable and have vast communities that support them. The hosting Control Panel options for the VPS accounts depend on your Operating System choice, so as to give you 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 couple of minutes. We also offer the option to keep the Operating System on your server up-to-date weekly.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

The dedicated server solutions that we offer come with as many as three different Operating Systems to select from. They are all Linux distributions - Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian, and not only do they have no license taxes, but they are also regarded as the most reliable and risk-free OSs. We supply three different ones as each of them is backed by a separate community. The packages which you could add on your web server are different and this could matter if you want to install some piece of software with specific requirements regarding the hosting environment. In this light, the internet hosting Control Panel which you can select for the dedicated server is also determined by the OS that you'll pick. You can select any of the three Operating Systems during the order procedure, but if necessary, we can always install the server once again with an alternative one upon your request. As an optional service that you could add to the plan at any time, we can update the OS regularly to keep it as secure as possible.