An Operating System is the software that interacts with the hardware of a computer system and works as the intermediary between all the applications and the hardware, including peripherals such as a printer, a mouse or a keyboard. When you run an application, it sends 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). Just like a personal computer, web servers also have an Operating System that acts as a host for all the software installed on them, which includes script apps or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and many others. A virtual machine can be created on a physical one, so you will be able to install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment in contrast to the physical server host Operating System.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server solutions - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they are totally free so they won't increase the low price of your new web hosting server, but also because they are really stable and secure. Each of them is supported by a huge community of web developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from many hundreds of software packages that you can install on your server if the application that you want to employ has specific requirements. The Operating System will also determine what web hosting Control Panel you can use because the Control Panels that we offer are compatible with particular OSs only and because we want to provide you with as much freedom as possible, we offer a couple of OSs and multiple Control Panels. If you choose a server with a certain Operating System, we can change it upon request if it turns out that you need a different one. We will also keep your OS updated on a weekly basis as part of our optional Managed Services upgrade.