An Operating System is the software that interacts with the hardware of a PC and works as the intermediary between apps and the hardware, including peripherals such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run software, it transfers requests to the OS through an API (Application Program Interface) and the communication is done via a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Just like a personal computer, web hosting servers also use an Operating System that serves as a host for all of the software installed on them, including script applications or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and many others. A virtual machine can be set up on a physical one, so you'll be able to install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment in contrast to the physical server host OS.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

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 absolutely free and they will not increase the low price of your new server, but also because they are very secure and stable. Each one of them is backed up by a huge community of developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from countless software packages that you may install on your server in case the application that you want to use has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what web hosting Control Panel you can use because the Control Panels that we offer run on particular OSs only and since we would like to give you as much flexibility as possible, we offer multiple OSs and multiple Control Panels. In case you choose a server with a certain OS, we could change it upon request in the event that it turns out that you will need a different one. We can also keep the OS updated weekly as a part of the additional Managed Services upgrade.