An Operating System is the software which communicates with the hardware of a PC and functions as the intermediary between the installed applications and the hardware, which includes peripheral devices such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run software, it transmits requests to the OS using an API (Application Program Interface) and the interaction is done through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). A lot like a personal computer, web servers also feature an Operating System that acts as a host for all 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 created 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 plans, you will be able to select one of the three Linux releases that we offer for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are among the most preferred and most stable server OSs available and we offer them in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine in case that you need to install some app with specific requirements regarding the packages that should be present on the hosting server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one of them you could use depends on the OS that you have chosen. We leave the option to change the server Operating System open, so if you want to use an app that requires an OS different from the one that's already present, we can always reinstall the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing all the security updates that 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 since we want to give you more flexible packages which will allow you to install and run any web software whatever its system requirements. Your options are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these three OSs are among the most dependable and secure ones, not mentioning that they don't have any license charges. All three have lots of developers that have created a large number of software packages that you could install and use on your 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 register. In case you need a different OS afterwards, it will not be a problem because we can always reinstall your server. With our Managed Services package we can also keep your OS secure by updating it on a weekly basis with all patches which are released for it.