Every notebook or desktop or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level software which interacts with the hardware equipment, including peripherals such as a mouse or a printer, as well as any apps that are present 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 OS. On a web server, every single app runs within the parameters specified by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etc. This goes for both standard website scripts and server-side software such as a media server. If a virtual server is generated on a physical one, there can be two independent Operating Systems, referred to as guest OS and host OS, so that you'll be able to set up a different software environment on the same machine.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

In case you choose to go for one of our VPS server plans, you'll be able to select 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 in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine if you need to install some app with specific requirements with regards to the packages that have to be present on the web server. We also offer three internet hosting Control Panels and which one of them you'll be able to use will depend on the OS that you have picked. We leave the possibility to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use software that requires an OS different from the one that's already present, we can always re-install the VPS. We can also keep the OS up-to-date on a weekly basis by installing all the security updates that may be available.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

The dedicated servers that we offer can be set up with three different Operating Systems since we want to give you more versatile packages which will let you install and run any web software irrespective of its system requirements. Your choices are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these three OSs are among the most reliable and risk-free ones, not mentioning that they do not have any kind of license fees. All three have numerous developers who have created a large number of software packages that you may install and use on your hosting server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one you can use is determined by the Operating System that you select when you sign up. If you need another OS later on, it will not be a problem since we can always reinstall your server. With our Managed Services package we could also keep your OS secure by upgrading it every week with all patches that are available for it.