An Operating System is the software which communicates with the hardware of a PC and serves as the intermediary between the installed applications and the hardware, which includes peripherals such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run an app, it transfers requests to the OS using an API (Application Program Interface) and the interaction is done through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). A lot like a personal computer, hosting servers also have an Operating System which serves as a host for any software installed on them, which includes script apps or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, etcetera. A virtual machine can be generated on a physical one, so you could install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment in contrast with the physical server host OS.
Multiple OS in VPS Servers
In case you decide to go for one of our VPS server plans, you shall be able to opt for one of the three Linux distributions which we offer for the Operating System of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're among the most popular and most dependable server OSs available on the market and we offer them in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine if you intend to install some app with precise requirements in terms of the packages that have to be present on the web hosting server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one of them you could use will depend on the OS that you have selected. We leave the possibility to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use software that requires an OS different from the one you already have, we can always reinstall the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date on a weekly basis by installing any security updates that may be available.
Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers
The dedicated servers we offer come with as many as three different Operating Systems since we want to offer you more versatile solutions which will let you install and run any web software regardless of its system requirements. Your choices are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these three OSs are some of the most reliable and safe ones, not mentioning that they do not have any license fees. All three have a large number of developers that have created a large number of software packages that you can install and use on your hosting server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one you can use is determined by the Operating System that you select when you register. If you need some other OS afterwards, it won't be a problem since we can always reinstall your machine. With our Managed Services package we can also keep your OS secure by upgrading it every week with any patches that are released for it.