Every desktop or notebook or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level program that interacts with the computer hardware, including peripherals such as a mouse or a printer, as well as any applications that are present on your 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 Operating System. On a server, each app runs within the parameters specified by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, and so on. This goes for both standard Internet site scripts and server-side software like a media server. In case a virtual server is generated on a physical one, there can be two separate Operating Systems, referred to as 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 Servers

We offer three Operating Systems with our dedicated server plans - CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. They are all different Linux distributions and we offer them not only because they are completely free and they won't increase the cost of your new web server, but also because they are very secure and stable. Each one of them is backed up by a big community of developers, so you'll be given the option to choose from many hundreds of software packages that you could install on your server if the app that you want 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 are compatible with specific OSs only and since 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 Operating System, we will change it upon request if it turns out that you'll need another one. We could also keep the OS updated on a weekly basis as part of our additional Managed Services upgrade.