Each notebook or desktop or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program which interacts with the hardware equipment, including peripheral devices such as a mouse or a printer, together with any applications that are present on the 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 specified by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etcetera. This goes for both standard website scripts and server-side software like a media server. When a virtual server is created on a physical one, there can be two independent Operating Systems, called guest OS and host OS, which means that you can set up a different software environment on the same machine.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

In case you decide to acquire one of our VPS server packages, you'll be able to select one of the three Linux distributions that we provide for the Operating System of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're among the most popular and most stable server OSs available 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 want to install some app with precise requirements regarding the packages that have to be present on the web server. We also offer three internet hosting Control Panels and which one of them you can use will depend on the OS that you have selected. We leave the option to change the server Operating System open, so when you want to use software that requires an OS different from the one you have, we can always reinstall the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing all the security updates which may be available.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

The dedicated servers we offer come with as many as three different Operating Systems as we want to offer you more versatile solutions which will enable you to install and run any kind of web software whatever its system requirements. The choices are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these three OSs are among the most stable and safe ones, not mentioning that they do not have any license costs. All three have thousands of developers that have created a large number of software packages that you may install and use on your hosting server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one you can use depends on the Operating System that you choose when you register. If you need a different OS subsequently, it won't be a problem as 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 which are released for it.