An Operating System is the software that communicates with the hardware of a PC and works as the intermediary between applications and the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a printer, a mouse or a keyboard. When you run software, it sends requests to the OS using an API (Application Program Interface) and the communication is done via a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Similar to a personal computer, hosting servers also have an Operating System which functions 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, etc. A virtual machine can be generated on a physical one, so you will be able to 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 Servers Hosting

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