An Operating System is the software which communicates with the hardware of a computer and serves as the intermediary between the installed applications and the hardware, which includes peripherals such as a printer, a mouse or a keyboard. When you run an application, it transmits requests to the OS through an API (Application Program Interface) and the communication is done through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). A lot like a personal computer, hosting servers also use an Operating System which functions as a host for any software installed on them, which includes script apps or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and so on. 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 with the physical server host Operating System.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server solutions - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they're cost-free and they won't increase the low price of your new hosting server, but also because they are exceptionally secure and stable. Each one of them is supported by a vast community of web developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from many hundreds of software packages that you could install on your server in case the application that you intend to use has specific requirements. The Operating System will also determine what hosting Control Panel you can use because the Control Panels that we offer are compatible with specific OSs only and because we want to provide you with as much versatility as possible, we offer a couple of OSs and multiple Control Panels. In case you choose a server with a certain OS, we will change it upon request in the event that it turns out that you will need a different one. We could also keep the OS updated weekly as part of our optional Managed Services upgrade.