Each and every notebook or desktop or web server is run by an Operating System - the low-level software that communicates with the computer hardware, including peripheral devices such as a mouse or a printer, and any applications that are installed on your system. Any program input using 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, each application runs within the parameters set by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, and so on. This is valid for both standard website scripts and server-side software like a media server. If a virtual server is generated on a physical one, there can be two different Operating Systems, referred to as guest OS and host OS, which means that you can set up a different software environment on a single machine.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server packages - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they are cost-free and they won't increase the cost of your new web server, but also because they are extremely secure and stable. Each of them is backed up by a large community of web developers, so you'll be able to choose from a large number 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 internet hosting Control Panel you can use as the Control Panels that we offer run on particular OSs only and because we want to give you as much freedom as possible, we offer a couple of OSs and multiple Control Panels. In case you choose a server with a certain OS, we could change it upon request if it turns out that you will need alternative one. We can also keep the OS updated weekly as a part of the useful Managed Services upgrade.