An Operating System is the software that interacts with the hardware of a computer and serves as the intermediary between the installed applications and the hardware, including peripherals such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run an application, it transfers 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 have an Operating System which serves as a host for all of the software installed on them, which includes script applications or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and many others. A virtual machine can be generated on a physical one, so you can install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment in contrast to the physical server host Operating System.

Multiple OS in VPS Hosting

If you decide to purchase one of our virtual private server plans, you shall be able to choose one of the three Linux releases which we supply for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are among the most well-known and most stable server OSs 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 would like to install some application with precise requirements in terms of the packages that need to be present on the server. We also offer three internet hosting Control Panels and which one of them you may use will depend on the OS that you've selected. We leave the chance to replace the server Operating System open, so when you want to use an app that requires an OS different from the one that's already present, we can always re-install the VPS. We can also keep the OS up-to-date on a weekly basis by installing all of the security updates which may be available.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Web Hosting

The dedicated server solutions that we offer come with as many as three different Operating Systems to choose from. They are all Linux distributions - Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian, and not only do they have no license fees, but they’re also known as the most reliable and risk-free OSs. We offer three different ones since each one of them is supported by a different community. The packages that you could add on your server are different and this could matter if you need to install some piece of software with specific requirements about the hosting environment. In this light, the web hosting Control Panel which you can select for the dedicated server is also determined by the Operating System that you'll select. You can choose any of the three Operating Systems throughout the order procedure, but if needed, we can always install the server once again with a different one upon your request. As an additional service that you may add to the plan any time, we can update the OS regularly to keep it as risk-free as possible.