An Operating System is the software which communicates with the hardware of a PC and functions as the intermediary between all the applications and the hardware, which includes peripheral devices such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run software, it transmits requests to the OS through an API (Application Program Interface) and the contact is done via a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Similar to a personal computer, web servers also use an Operating System which acts as a host for the software installed on them, which includes script applications or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, etc. A virtual machine can be created on a physical one, so it is possible to install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment compared to the physical server host OS.
Multiple OS in VPS
In case you decide to buy one of our virtual private server plans, you'll be able to pick one of the three Linux releases which we supply for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're among the most preferred and most dependable server OSs available and we offer them in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine if you need to install some app with precise requirements regarding the packages that need to be present on the web server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one of them you may use will depend on the OS that you have selected. We leave the possibility to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use an app that requires an OS different from the one that's already present, we can always reinstall the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing all of the security updates that may be available.
Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting
The dedicated servers that we offer can be set up with three different Operating Systems since we want to offer you more versatile solutions which will permit you to install and run any type of web software irrespective of its system requirements. The choices are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these 3 OSs are some of the most dependable and safe ones, not mentioning that they do not have any license fees. All three have thousands of developers that have created countless software packages that you could install and use on your web hosting server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one you can use will depend on the Operating System that you select when you sign up. If you need a new OS subsequently, it will not be a problem because we can always reinstall your machine. With our Managed Services package we could also keep your OS secure by updating it on a weekly basis with any patches which are available for it.