An Operating System is the software which communicates with the hardware of a PC and serves as the intermediary between apps and the hardware, which includes peripheral devices such as a printer, a computer mouse or a keyboard. When you run software, it transfers requests to the OS through an API (Application Program Interface) and the communication is done via a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Similar to a personal computer, hosting servers also feature 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 so on. A virtual machine can be generated 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 Dedicated Hosting

The dedicated servers we offer can be set up with three different Operating Systems since we want to offer you more flexible plans which will allow you to install and run any web software regardless of its system requirements. Your options are CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu and these 3 OSs are some of the most dependable and safe ones, not mentioning that they don't have any license fees. All three have numerous developers who have created countless software packages that you could install and use on your hosting server. We also offer three web hosting Control Panels and which one you can use is determined by the Operating System that you select when you sign up. In case you need some other OS later, it will not be a problem because we can always reinstall your server. With our Managed Services package we can also keep your OS secure by upgrading it every week with all patches that are released for it.