An Operating System is the software which communicates with the hardware of a PC and works as the intermediary between all the applications and the hardware, which includes peripheral devices such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run an application, it sends requests to the OS using an API (Application Program Interface) and the communication is done through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). A lot like a personal computer, hosting servers also have an Operating System that 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 generated on a physical one, so you'll be able to install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment in contrast with the physical server host OS.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

If you decide to purchase one of our VPS server plans, you'll be able to pick 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 on the market and we offer them so that you have a choice for the software environment of your machine if you want to install some app with precise requirements with regards to the packages that should be present on the web hosting server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one of them you'll be able to use will depend on the OS that you've picked. We leave the possibility to replace the server Operating System open, so when you want to use software that requires an OS different from the one you already have, 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 available.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

The dedicated servers we offer can be installed with as many as three different Operating Systems since we want to give you more versatile packages which will allow you to install and run any kind of web software whatever its system requirements. Your choices are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these three OSs are among the most stable and risk-free ones, not mentioning that they don't have any kind of license costs. All three have a large number of developers that have created a huge number of software packages that you'll be able to install and use on your server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one you can use is determined by the Operating System that you choose when you register. In case you need a different OS afterwards, it won't be a problem as we can always reinstall your machine. With our Managed Services package we can also keep your OS secure by upgrading it every week with all patches which are available for it.