Every notebook or desktop or web server is run by an Operating System - the low-level software which communicates with the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a mouse or a printer, and any apps that are installed on your system. Any program input using 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, any application runs within the parameters defined by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etc. This is valid for both standard website scripts and server-side software like a media server. If a virtual server is set up on a physical one, there can be two independent Operating Systems, referred to as guest OS and host OS, which means that you'll be able to set up a different software environment on a single machine.

Multiple OS in VPS

If you decide to buy one of our virtual private server packages, you will be able to choose one of the three Linux distributions which we offer for the Operating System of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are among the most popular and most reliable 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 need to install some application with specific requirements with regards to the packages that need to be present on the web server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one of them you could use depends on the OS that you've selected. We leave the option to change the server Operating System open, so when you want to use software that requires an OS different from the one you already have, we can always reinstall the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing all of the security updates which may be available.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

The dedicated server solutions that we offer come with as many as three different Operating Systems to choose from. They are all Linux release - Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian, and not only do they have no license charges, but they’re also considered to be among the most stable and risk-free OSs. We supply three different ones since each of them is supported by a different community. The packages which you could add on your web server are different and this could matter if you want to install some piece of software with specific requirements regarding the hosting environment. In this light, the internet hosting Control Panel which you can select for the dedicated server is also determined by the OS that you'll select. You can pick any of the three Operating Systems during the order procedure, however if needed, we can always install the server anew with a different one upon your request. As an optional service that you could add to the package at any time, we can update your OS regularly to keep it as secure as possible.