An Operating System is the software that interacts with the hardware of a PC and is the intermediary between apps and the hardware, including peripheral devices such as a printer, a mouse or a keyboard. When you run an app, 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). Similar to a personal computer, web servers also have an Operating System which functions as a host for any software installed on them, which includes script apps or server-side software such as a flash server, a VOIP server, and many others. A virtual machine can be set up on a physical one, so you will be able to install a guest OS on it and have a different system environment in contrast with the physical server host OS.
Multiple OS in VPS Servers
In case you pick one of our VPS server solutions, you will have as many as three different Operating Systems to select from - CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. They're all Linux releases and we offer them rather than offering just a single OS, as the applications that you may want to run on the server may have specific requirements for the software environment. Each of these three has certain advantages with regard to the available plans that you may later install, but what's common between them is the fact that they're really secure and dependable and have huge communities that support them. The internet hosting Control Panel options for the VPS accounts depend on your Operating System choice, so as to provide you with more flexibility. In case you order the virtual server with one OS and you need a different one later, our tech support team can easily reinstall the VPS with the new one in just a few 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 distributions - Ubuntu, CentOS and Debian, and not only do they have no license taxes, but they are also regarded as the most dependable and safe OSs. We provide three different ones since each one of them is backed by a different community. The packages which you could add on your web server are different and this could matter if you need to install some piece of software with particular requirements regarding the hosting environment. In this light, the internet hosting Control Panel that you can select for the dedicated server also depends on the OS that you'll pick. You can pick any of the three Operating Systems throughout the order process, however if needed, we can always set up the server anew with another one upon your request. As an additional service that you may add to the package any time, we can update your OS regularly in order to keep it as secure as possible.