Each and every PC or web server is run by an Operating System - the low-level software that communicates with the hardware equipment, including peripherals such as a mouse and a printer, together with any apps that are present 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 Operating System. On a web server, each app runs within the parameters specified by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, and so on. This is valid for both standard website scripts and server-side software like a media server. If a virtual server is created on a physical one, there can be two different 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 the very same machine.
Multiple OS in VPS Web Hosting
In case you choose to purchase one of our virtual private server plans, you shall be able to pick one of the three Linux releases that we supply for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are among the most widespread and most dependable server OSs out there 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 app with precise requirements regarding the packages that need to be present on the web server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one of them you'll be able to use depends on the OS that you have chosen. We leave the chance to change the server Operating System open, so when you want to use an application that requires an OS different from the one that's already present, we can always re-install 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 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 are completely free so they won't increase the low price of your new server, but also because they are very stable and secure. Each one of them is backed up by a large community of web developers, so you will be able to choose from many hundreds of software packages that you can install on your server in case the application that you would like to use has specific requirements. The Operating System will also determine what internet hosting Control Panel you can use as the Control Panels that we offer are compatible with specific OSs only and since we want to give you as much flexibility as possible, we offer a couple of OSs and multiple Control Panels. If you choose a server with a given Operating System, we could change it upon request in case it turns out that you'll need another one. We could also keep the OS updated on a weekly basis as a part of our optional Managed Services upgrade.