An Operating System is the software which communicates with the hardware of a PC and works as the intermediary between applications and the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a printer, a mouse or a keyboard. When you run software, it transmits requests to the OS through an API (Application Program Interface) and the communication is done via a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Identical to a personal computer, web hosting servers also use an Operating System that functions as a host for all of the software installed on them, including script apps or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and many others. 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 OS.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

If you choose to acquire one of our VPS server packages, you shall be able to opt for one of the three Linux distributions that we supply for the Operating System of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are among the most popular and most stable server OSs out there and we offer them in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine in case that you want to install some app with particular requirements with regards to the packages that must be present on the hosting server. We also offer three internet hosting Control Panels and which one of them you may use depends on the OS that you have chosen. We leave the option to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use software that requires an OS different from the one you have, we can always reinstall the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing any security updates which may be available.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

The dedicated servers we offer can be set up with as many as 3 different Operating Systems as we want to give you more flexible solutions which will allow you to install and run any kind of web software irrespective of its system requirements. The options are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these three OSs are among the most reliable and safe ones, not mentioning that they do not have any kind of license costs. All three have lots of developers who have created a large number of software packages that you can install and use on your hosting server. We also offer three internet hosting Control Panels and which one you can use depends on the Operating System that you select when you register. In case you need some other OS later on, it won't 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 on a weekly basis with any patches which are released for it.