An Operating System is the software that communicates with the hardware of a computer system and serves as the intermediary between applications and the hardware, which includes peripherals such as a printer, a mouse or a keyboard. When you run an application, it transfers requests to the OS through an API (Application Program Interface) and the interaction is done through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Identical to a personal computer, web servers also have an Operating System that functions as a host for any software installed on them, including script applications or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, etc. 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 in contrast with the physical server host Operating System.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server solutions - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they are completely free and they won't increase the low price of your new hosting server, but also because they are outstandingly stable and secure. Each one of them is backed up by a vast community of web developers, so you will be able to choose from thousands of software packages that you can install on your server if the app that you would like to use has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what web hosting Control Panel you can use since the Control Panels that we offer run on particular OSs only and since we would like to give you as much freedom as possible, we offer multiple OSs and multiple Control Panels. If you get a server with a certain OS, we can change it upon request if it turns out that you will need alternative one. We could also keep your OS updated weekly as part of the additional Managed Services upgrade.