An Operating System is the low-level software which manages a computer system. It takes care of how your hardware behaves, the communication with peripherals for instance a monitor, a printer or a keyboard, the allocation of memory between all the applications, as well as the prioritization of applications when several run at the same time. Each and every program which is installed on a laptop or a desktop works by sending requests to the OS for various services by using an application program interface (API). The communication with the OS can be performed through a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a command line. In the hosting world, the OS is what controls a web hosting server together with all of the software installed on it, which includes not only website scripts, but also any other application such as a VOIP or a game server. If there are virtual machines created, they work with a guest OS which runs on the server host OS.

Multiple OS in VPS

In case you pick one of our virtual private server solutions, you will have as many as 3 different Operating Systems to choose from - CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. They're all Linux releases and we offer them instead of offering just a single OS, since the apps that you may want to run on the server could have specific requirements about the software environment. Each of these three has certain advantages with regard to the available packages that you may eventually install, but what is common between them is that they're very secure and dependable and have large communities that support them. The web hosting Control Panel options for the VPS accounts depend on your OS choice, in order to give you more flexibility. In case you order the virtual server with one OS and you need a different one later, our technical support team can easily reinstall the VPS with the new one in a couple of minutes. We also offer the option to keep the Operating System on your server up-to-date weekly.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

If you decide to buy one of our dedicated servers, you will find three Operating Systems on the registration page as we want to give you a broader choice for the system environment on the server as different apps may have specific requirements. CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian include different modules developed by their huge support communities, so you can select any of these OSs and take advantage of a stable and risk-free hosting service. Based on your choice, you'll also have different Control Panels to choose from. Needless to say, we can always change the Operating System in case the one you've selected at first doesn't meet the requirements of the software which you would like to run. We can also update the OS routinely to keep it as secure as possible through our Managed Services upgrade package.