Every desktop or notebook or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program which communicates with the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a mouse or a printer, and any apps that are present 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 web server, every single application runs within the parameters defined by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, and so on. This is valid for both standard website scripts and server-side software like a media server. When a virtual server is set up on a physical one, there can be two different Operating Systems, named guest OS and host OS, so that you'll be able to set up a different software environment on a single machine.

Multiple OS in VPS

If you choose to purchase one of our virtual private server plans, you will be able to select one of the three Linux releases which we offer for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. These are among the most popular and most reliable server OSs available on the market 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 precise requirements in terms of the packages that should be present on the web server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one of them you may use will depend on the OS that you have selected. 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 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 Hosting

The dedicated servers that we offer come with three different Operating Systems because we want to offer you more flexible solutions that will let you install and run any kind of web software whatever its system requirements. The options are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these 3 OSs are among the most dependable and risk-free ones, not mentioning that they don't have any kind of license costs. All three have a large number of developers who have created a large number of software packages that you could 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 choose when you sign up. In case you need another OS later, it will not be a problem since we can always reinstall your machine. With our Managed Services package we could also keep your OS secure by updating it on a weekly basis with all patches that are available for it.