Every desktop or notebook or server is run by an Operating System - the low-level software that communicates with the computer hardware, including peripherals such as a mouse or a printer, along with any apps that are currently installed on your system. Any program input through a command line or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is processed by sending an Application Program Interface (API) request to the OS. On a web server, any application runs within the parameters established by the OS as well - priority, physical memory, processing time, etc. This is valid for both standard 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 different 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 a single machine.

Multiple OS in VPS Hosting

If you select one of our virtual private server plans, you'll have 3 different Operating Systems to pick from - CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. They are all Linux releases and we offer them instead of offering just one OS, since the apps that you might want to run on the server may have specific requirements regarding the software environment. Each one of these three has some advantages in terms of the available plans that you can later install, but what is common between them is the fact that they are very secure and dependable and have huge communities that support them. The hosting Control Panel choices for the VPS accounts depend on your Operating System choice, so as to provide you with more flexibility. When you order the virtual server with one OS and you need another one later, our technical support team can easily reinstall the VPS with the new one in just a few minutes. We also offer you the option to maintain the Operating System on your server up-to-date weekly.