An Operating System is the basic software that manages a computer. It takes care of the way your hardware behaves, the communication with peripheral devices for instance a monitor, a printer or a keyboard, the allocation of memory between various applications, and the prioritization of applications when several run at the same time. Each program that's installed on a laptop or a desktop works by sending requests to the OS for various services using an application program interface (API). The contact with the OS can be achieved via a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a command line. In the Internet hosting world, the OS is what runs a server along with any software installed on it, which includes not only website scripts, but also every other application such as a VOIP or a game server. When there are virtual machines created, they use a guest OS that is run on the server host OS.

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 completely free and they won't increase the low price of your new web hosting server, but also because they are really secure and stable. Each one of them is supported by a vast community of web developers, so you will be able to choose from countless software packages that you may install on your server if the application that you would like to employ has specific requirements. The Operating System will also determine what web hosting Control Panel you can use as the Control Panels that we offer run on specific OSs only and since we want to provide you with as much freedom as possible, we offer multiple OSs and multiple Control Panels. If you get a server with a certain OS, we could change it upon request if it turns out that you need another one. We will also keep your OS updated on a weekly basis as part of the useful Managed Services upgrade.