An Operating System is the software which interacts with the hardware of a computer system and functions as the intermediary between applications and the hardware, including peripherals such as a printer, a mouse or a keyboard. When you run software, it transfers requests to the OS using an API (Application Program Interface) and the interaction is done through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Identical to a personal computer, web hosting servers also use an Operating System which functions as a host for the software installed on them, which includes script apps or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and so on. A virtual machine can be set up on a physical one, so you'll be able to install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment in contrast to the physical server host OS.

Multiple OS in Dedicated Hosting

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 cost-free and they will not increase the cost of your new hosting server, but also because they are exceptionally secure and stable. Each of them is supported by a big community of developers, so you'll be able to choose from many hundreds of software packages that you may install on your server if the application that you intend to use has certain requirements. The Operating System will also determine what internet hosting Control Panel you can use as the Control Panels that we offer run on specific OSs only and since we would like to provide you with as much versatility as possible, we offer several OSs and multiple Control Panels. If you get a server with a given Operating System, we could change it upon request in case it turns out that you'll need alternative one. We can also keep the OS updated on a weekly basis as a part of our optional Managed Services upgrade.