Each notebook or desktop or web server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program which interacts with the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a mouse and a printer, and any applications that are present 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 Operating System. On a server, every single app runs within the parameters specified by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etc. This is valid for both standard Internet site scripts and server-side software such as a media server. In case a virtual server is generated 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 very same machine.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

If you decide to go for one of our VPS server plans, you'll be able to choose one of the three Linux releases that we offer for the OS of the servers - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're among the most preferred 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 wish to install some application with specific requirements regarding the packages that must be present on the server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one of them you can use will depend on the OS that you've picked. We leave the option to replace the server Operating System open, so if you want to use an app that requires an OS different from the one you have, we can always re-install the VPS. We can also keep the OS up-to-date weekly by installing all the security updates which may be available.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

The dedicated server plans that we offer come with three different Operating Systems to choose from. They are all Linux release - Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian, and not only do they have no license fees, but they are also regarded as the most dependable and risk-free OSs. We offer three different ones since each of them is supported by a different community. The packages that you could add on your hosting server are different and this may matter in case you want to install some piece of software with particular requirements regarding the hosting environment. In this light, the internet hosting Control Panel which you can select for the dedicated server also depends on the OS that you will pick. You may choose any of the three Operating Systems throughout the order procedure, but if needed, we can always set up the server once again with another one upon your request. As an optional service that you could add to the package at any time, we can update the OS on a regular basis so as to keep it as secure as possible.