An Operating System is the software that communicates with the hardware of a computer and serves as the intermediary between applications and the hardware, which includes peripherals such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run an application, it transfers requests to the OS through an API (Application Program Interface) and the contact is done via a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Identical to a personal computer, hosting servers also feature an Operating System that serves 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 Operating System.
Multiple OS in VPS Servers
In case you choose to go for one of our VPS server plans, you shall be able to pick one of the three Linux releases which we supply for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. These are among the most preferred and most dependable server OSs available and we offer them so that you have a choice for the software environment of your machine in case that you would like to install some app with specific requirements in terms of 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 will depend on the OS that you have picked. We leave the possibility to replace the server Operating System open, so when you want to use an application that requires an OS different from the one you already have, we can always re-install the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing all the security updates which may be released.
Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers
We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server plans - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they're 100 % free and they will not increase the cost of your new web server, but also because they are very secure and stable. Each of them is backed up by a big community of developers, so you will be able to choose from a large number software packages that you could install on your server in case the application that you want to employ has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what internet 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 versatility as possible, we offer multiple OSs and multiple Control Panels. If you get a server with a given Operating System, we will change it upon request if it turns out that you'll need a different one. We can also keep the OS updated weekly as part of the additional Managed Services upgrade.