Every notebook or desktop or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level software which communicates with the hardware equipment, including peripheral devices such as a mouse and a printer, along with any apps that are present on the system. Any program input using 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, every single application runs within the parameters specified 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. If a virtual server is created on a physical one, there can be two independent Operating Systems, called guest OS and host OS, so you will be able to set up a different software environment on a single machine.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

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 are 100 % free and they won't increase the price of your new hosting server, but also because they are outstandingly stable and secure. Each one of them is backed up by a big community of web developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from countless software packages that you may install on your server if the application that you would like to work with has specific requirements. The Operating System will also determine what internet hosting Control Panel you can use because the Control Panels that we offer run on particular OSs only and because we would like to give you as much adaptability as possible, we offer several OSs and multiple Control Panels. In case you choose a server with a given OS, we can change it upon request if it turns out that you'll need a different one. We can also keep your OS updated on a weekly basis as a part of the optional Managed Services upgrade.