Every single notebook or desktop or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program that interacts with the computer hardware, including peripheral devices such as a mouse and a printer, and any applications that are present on the 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 server, every single 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 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 different Operating Systems, named guest OS and host OS, so that you can set up a different software environment on the same machine.

Multiple OS in VPS Servers

If you choose one of our VPS server packages, you will have as many as 3 different Operating Systems to choose from - CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. They're all Linux releases and we offer them rather than offering just a single OS, because the apps that you may want to run on the server could have specific requirements for the software environment. Each of the three has certain advantages with regard to the available packages that you can later install, but what is common between them is that they're really secure and reliable and have large communities which support them. The internet hosting Control Panel options for the VPS accounts depend on your OS choice, in order to give you more flexibility. If you order the virtual server with one OS and you need a different one later, our technical support team can easily reinstall the VPS with the new one in a couple of minutes. We also offer the option to keep the Operating System on your server up-to-date on a weekly basis.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Servers

The dedicated server solutions that we offer come with three different Operating Systems to pick from. They are all Linux release - Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian, and not only do they have no license taxes, but they’re also regarded as the most reliable and safe OSs. We provide three different ones for the reason that each one of them is supported by a separate community. The packages that you can add on your server are different and this may matter in case you want to install some piece of software with specific requirements about 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 can choose any of the three Operating Systems throughout the order procedure, yet if necessary, we can always set up the server anew with an alternative one upon your request. As an optional service that you could add to the package at any moment, we can update your OS on a regular basis in order to keep it as secure as possible.