An Operating System is the software which interacts with the hardware of a computer and is the intermediary between apps and the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run an application, it transfers requests to the OS using 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, hosting servers also have an Operating System which acts as a host for the software installed on them, including script apps or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and so on. A virtual machine can be set up on a physical one, so you can install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment in contrast with the physical server host Operating System.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

If you decide to go for one of our VPS server packages, you'll be able to pick one of the three Linux releases which we offer for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're among the most popular and most stable 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 need to install some app with specific requirements in terms of the packages that have to be present on the web hosting server. We also offer three internet hosting Control Panels and which one of them you can use depends on the OS that you have picked. We leave the chance to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use an application that requires an OS different from the one that's already present, we can always re-install the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date on a weekly basis by installing all of the security updates that may be released.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

The dedicated server packages that we offer come with three different Operating Systems to select from. They are all Linux distributions - Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian, and not only do they have no license fees, but they are also known as the most dependable and secure OSs. We supply three different ones because each one of them is supported by a separate community. The packages that you could add on your hosting server are different and this could matter in case you want to install some piece of software with particular requirements for the hosting environment. In this light, the internet hosting Control Panel which you can select for the dedicated server also depends on the Operating System that you'll pick. You can select any of the three Operating Systems throughout the order procedure, but if needed, we can always set up the server once again with a different one upon your request. As an optional service that you can add to the package at any time, we can update your OS regularly in order to keep it as risk-free as possible.