Every single personal computer 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 or a printer, and any applications that are installed on your 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 application runs within the parameters defined by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etcetera. This goes for both standard Internet site scripts and server-side software like a media server. If a virtual server is set up on a physical one, there can be two separate Operating Systems, referred to as guest OS and host OS, so you will be able to set up a different software environment on the same machine.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Web Hosting

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