An Operating System is the fundamental software which manages a computer. It handles the way the hardware behaves, the communication with peripherals like a monitor, a printer or a keyboard, the allocation of memory between your applications, along with the prioritization of apps when multiple ones run at once. Any program that's installed on a notebook or a desktop functions by sending requests to the OS for different services via an application program interface (API). The contact with the OS is possible using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a command line. In the hosting world, the Operating System is what runs a hosting server together with all the software installed on it, which includes not only website scripts, but, in addition any other application such as a VOIP or a game server. When there are virtual machines created, they employ a guest OS that is run on the server host OS.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

In case you decide to buy one of our VPS server packages, you'll be able to choose one of the three Linux distributions that we offer for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. These are among the most widespread and most stable server OSs on the market and we offer them in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine in case that you would like to install some app with specific requirements in terms of the packages that need to be present on the web server. We also offer three internet hosting Control Panels and which one of them you may use will depend on the OS that you've chosen. 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 that's already present, we can always reinstall the VPS. We can also keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing all of the security updates which may be released.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

The dedicated servers that we offer can be set up with three different Operating Systems as we want to give you more versatile solutions that will allow you to install and run any type of web software regardless of its system requirements. The choices are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these 3 OSs are among the most stable and risk-free ones, not mentioning that they don't have any kind of license charges. All three have thousands of developers that have created a large number of software packages that you may install and use on your web server. We also offer three hosting Control Panels and which one you can use is determined by the Operating System that you choose when you sign up. If you need a different OS later, it will not be a problem since we can always reinstall your machine. With our Managed Services package we can also keep your OS secure by updating it on a weekly basis with any patches that are released for it.