An Operating System is the software which communicates with the hardware of a computer and functions as the intermediary between the installed applications and the hardware, including 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 communication is done via a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). A lot like a personal computer, web servers also feature an Operating System that acts as a host for all the software installed on them, which includes script apps or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and many others. A virtual machine can be generated on a physical one, so you can install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment compared to the physical server host OS.

Multiple OS in VPS

If you select one of our virtual private server plans, you will have 3 different Operating Systems to choose from - CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. They're all Linux distributions and we offer them instead of offering just one OS, because the applications that you might want to run on the server may have specific requirements for the software environment. Each one of these three has certain advantages regarding the available packages that you can afterwards install, but what's common between them is that they're very secure and dependable and have huge communities which support them. The web hosting Control Panel choices for the VPS accounts depend on your OS choice, in order to give you more flexibility. If you order the virtual server with one OS and you need a different one later, our technical support team can easily reinstall the VPS with the new one in just a few minutes. We also offer the option to maintain the Operating System on your server up-to-date weekly.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

The dedicated servers that we offer can be set up with as many as 3 different Operating Systems since we want to give you more versatile plans which will let you install and run any type of web software whatever its system requirements. The options are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these three OSs are among the most reliable and safe ones, not mentioning that they don't have any kind of license charges. All three have a large number of developers that have created a huge number of software packages that you'll be able to install and use on your hosting server. We also offer three internet hosting Control Panels and which one you can use depends on the Operating System that you select when you register. If you need a new OS subsequently, it won't be a problem since we can always reinstall your server. With our Managed Services package we can also keep your OS secure by updating it every week with all patches which are released for it.