An Operating System is the software which interacts with the hardware of a PC and functions as the intermediary between all the applications and the hardware, including peripherals such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run software, it sends requests to the OS using an API (Application Program Interface) and the communication is done through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Just like a personal computer, web servers also feature an Operating System that 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 so on. A virtual machine can be set up 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 OS.

Multiple OS in VPS

In case you decide to go for one of our virtual private 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 well-known and most reliable server OSs out there and we offer them in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine if you would like to install some app with particular requirements with regards to the packages that need to be present on the web server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one of them you'll be able to use will depend on the OS that you have chosen. We leave the possibility to change the server Operating System open, so when you want to use an application that requires an OS different from the one you have, we can always re-install the VPS. We can also keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing any security updates that may be available.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

The dedicated servers we offer come with as many as three different Operating Systems as we want to give you more flexible plans that will allow you to install and run any type of web software whatever its system requirements. The options are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these 3 OSs are some of the most dependable and safe ones, not mentioning that they do not have any license costs. All three have thousands of developers that have created countless software packages that you may install and use on your server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one you can use will depend on the Operating System that you choose when you sign up. If you need some other OS later, it will not be a problem as 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 that are released for it.