Every desktop or notebook or web server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program that interacts with the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a mouse and a printer, as well as any applications that are currently installed 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 server, any app runs within the parameters established by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, and so on. This is valid for both standard Internet site scripts and server-side software such as a media server. If a virtual server is generated on a physical one, there can be two different Operating Systems, named guest OS and host OS, so that you will be able to set up a different software environment on the same machine.
Multiple OS in VPS Web Hosting
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 distributions that we supply for the Operating System of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. These are among the most popular and most dependable server OSs on the market and we offer them so that you have a choice for the software environment of your machine if you need to install some app with precise 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 can use depends on the OS that you've chosen. We leave the chance to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use an app 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 all the security updates that may be released.
Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers Hosting
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 free and they will not increase the cost of your new web hosting server, but also because they are very secure and stable. Each of them is supported by a huge community of web developers, so you will be able to choose from countless software packages that you may install on your server if the application that you intend to work with has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what internet hosting Control Panel you can use because the Control Panels that we offer are compatible with specific OSs only and because we would like to provide you with as much adaptability 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 another one. We could also keep your OS updated on a weekly basis as a part of our additional Managed Services upgrade.