Each and every desktop or notebook or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program that interacts with the hardware, including peripherals such as a mouse and a printer, as well as any apps that are present 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, each app runs within the parameters defined by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, and so on. This goes for both standard site scripts and server-side software like a media server. In case a virtual server is generated on a physical one, there can be two different Operating Systems, named guest OS and host OS, so you'll be able to set up a different software environment on the very same machine.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Web Hosting

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server plans - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they're completely free and they won't increase the price of your new hosting server, but also because they are extremely secure and stable. Each of them is supported by a large community of web developers, so you will be able to choose from countless software packages that you could install on your server if the application that you want to work with has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what web 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 give you as much adaptability as possible, we offer a couple of OSs and multiple Control Panels. If you get a server with a certain OS, we can change it upon request in the event that it turns out that you will need another one. We will also keep the OS updated weekly as a part of our additional Managed Services upgrade.