An Operating System is the software which interacts with the hardware of a computer and serves 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 sends requests to the OS using 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, web servers also have an Operating System which acts as a host for all the software installed on them, including script apps or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and so on. A virtual machine can be set up on a physical one, so you could install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment compared to the physical server host Operating System.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

In case you pick one of our VPS server packages, you will have three different Operating Systems to pick from - CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. They're all Linux releases and we offer them rather than offering just one OS, since the apps that you might want to run on the server may have specific requirements regarding the software environment. Each of the three has some pros with regard to the available plans that you could later on install, but what's common between them is that they're really secure and dependable and have large communities which support them. The internet hosting Control Panel choices for the VPS accounts depend on your Operating System choice, in order to give you more flexibility. If you order the virtual server with one OS and you need another one later, our tech support team can easily reinstall the VPS with the new one in a matter of minutes. We also offer the option to keep the Operating System on your server up-to-date on a weekly basis.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

The dedicated server packages that we offer come with three different Operating Systems to select from. They are all Linux distributions - Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian, and not only do they have no license fees, but they’re also considered to be among the most stable and safe OSs. We provide three different ones for the reason that each one of them is backed by a different community. The packages which you can add on your hosting server are different and this may matter in case you need to install some piece of software with specific requirements regarding the hosting environment. In this light, the web hosting Control Panel which you can select for the dedicated server also depends on the OS that you'll select. You can select any of the three Operating Systems during the order procedure, but if needed, we can always install the server once again with another one upon your request. As an additional service that you could add to the plan whenever you want, we can update your OS on a regular basis to keep it as risk-free as possible.