Every personal computer or web server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program that interacts with the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a mouse and a printer, together with any apps 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, any app runs within the parameters specified by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etcetera. This is valid for both standard Internet site scripts and server-side software such as a media server. If a virtual server is set up on a physical one, there can be two independent Operating Systems, named guest OS and host OS, which means that you will be able to set up a different software environment on the same machine.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server plans - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They're all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they are freely available so they won't increase the price of your new hosting server, but also because they are very secure and stable. Each one of them is backed up by a vast community of developers, so you'll be able to choose from a myriad of software packages that you can install on your server if the app that you want to employ has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what 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 multiple OSs and multiple Control Panels. If you choose a server with a certain OS, we can change it upon request in case it turns out that you will need a different one. We can also keep the OS updated on a weekly basis as part of the additional Managed Services upgrade.