Each and every notebook or desktop or web server is run by an Operating System - the low-level software that communicates with the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a mouse or a printer, as well as any applications that are installed 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 OS. On a web server, any application runs within the parameters defined by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, and so on. This is valid for both standard site scripts and server-side software such as a media server. If a virtual server is created on a physical one, there can be two independent Operating Systems, named 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 choose to buy one of our VPS server packages, you will be able to choose one of the three Linux distributions which we supply for the Operating System of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are among the most popular and most reliable server OSs available on the market and we offer them in order to give you a choice for the software environment of your machine if you want to install some application with particular requirements with regards to the packages that should be present on the web hosting 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 picked. We leave the chance to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use an application that requires an OS different from the one you have, we can always re-install the VPS. In addition, we can keep the OS up-to-date on a weekly basis by installing all of the security updates that may be released.
Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers
The dedicated servers that we offer can be installed with three different Operating Systems since we want to give you more flexible plans which will permit you to install and run any web software irrespective of its system requirements. The options are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these 3 OSs are among the most reliable and risk-free ones, not mentioning that they don't have any kind of license charges. All three have thousands of developers who have created a large number of software packages that you may install and use on your web server. We also offer three internet hosting Control Panels and which one you can use depends on the Operating System that you select when you register. If you need a new OS later, it won't be a problem as we can always reinstall your machine. With our Managed Services package we could also keep your OS secure by updating it every week with all patches that are released for it.