Every notebook or desktop or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level software that interacts with the hardware equipment, including peripheral devices such as a mouse or a printer, together 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, each application runs within the parameters set by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etc. This is valid for both standard website scripts and server-side software such as a media server. When a virtual server is set up on a physical one, there can be two different Operating Systems, referred to as guest OS and host OS, so that you will be able to set up a different software environment on the very same machine.

Multiple OS in Dedicated 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 are completely free and they won't increase the cost of your new server, but also because they are extremely secure and stable. Each one of them is backed up by a big community of developers, so you'll be able to choose from many hundreds of software packages that you may install on your server in case the app that you intend to work with has specific requirements. The Operating System will also determine what hosting Control Panel you can use as the Control Panels that we offer are compatible with particular OSs only and since we would like to give you as much adaptability 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 if it turns out that you will need alternative one. We can also keep the OS updated weekly as part of our additional Managed Services upgrade.