Each personal computer or web server is run by an Operating System - the low-level software that communicates with the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a mouse or a printer, and any applications that are installed on your system. Any program input through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is processed by sending an Application Program Interface (API) request to the OS. On a server, every single application runs within the parameters defined by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etcetera. This is valid for both standard website scripts and server-side software such as a media server. In case a virtual server is created on a physical one, there can be two different Operating Systems, called guest OS and host OS, so that you'll be able to set up a different software environment on the same machine.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers Hosting

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server packages - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they're completely free so they won't increase the cost of your new server, but also because they are extremely stable and secure. Each of them is supported by a large community of web developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from countless software packages that you may install on your server if the app that you intend to employ has specific requirements. The Operating System will also determine what web hosting Control Panel you can use since the Control Panels that we offer run on specific OSs only and because we want to give you as much freedom as possible, we offer a couple of OSs and multiple Control Panels. If you get a server with a certain OS, we will change it upon request in case it turns out that you will need alternative one. We could also keep the OS updated on a weekly basis as part of the useful Managed Services upgrade.