CentOS is an abbreviation for Community Enterprise Operating System. This is one of the leading Linux distributions for servers and it's regarded as being one of the most reliable and risk-free Operating Systems available. CentOS is open-source software, which means that you're able to personalize it in whatever way you see fit, adding and removing packages or modifying the program code of any of them. It is also free to distribute and use, so you will not have to pay any kind of license fees, meaning that the total price that you will have to pay for a server running CentOS will be much lower as compared to the price for a server running an alternative OS. What makes CentOS unique among other Linux releases is its huge developer society, that will help you find the reply to any kind of question or problem you may have. What's even more, each version that is released officially is supported for 10 years, which is a lot longer than with any other OS. This means frequent safety and stability updates which will provide a dependable software setting for all your web applications in the long run.
CentOS in VPS Servers
CentOS is accessible with each and every VPS server that we offer and you can select it during the order process from among a few other Operating Systems. Depending on the software which you would like to set up and run, you will be able to choose between the 32-bit and the 64-bit version and then your new VPS will be all set soon after that. CentOS supports all three web hosting Control Panels that we supply - cPanel, DirectAdmin and Hepsia. This enables you to choose if you wish to use the server for your own web sites and to control it as one large account, or if you want to be able to generate many web hosting accounts and resell them to others. Of course, you may also order a VPS without any Control Panel and you will get a server with an Operating System and the Apache web server software, but nothing else on it, so you can install only the software which you need for your applications.
CentOS in Dedicated Servers
When you need a dedicated server with CentOS, you can take advantage of the plans which we offer, since this Operating System is on the list of options which you can choose through the registration process. Since the software that you would like to use can have specific system requirements, we have 32-bit and 64-bit releases of CentOS. CentOS works with numerous hosting Control Panels, and if you get a dedicated server with our Hepsia Control Panel, you can manage the server like you're controlling a single very large account, and with cPanel and DirectAdmin, you're able to have separate accounts for the domain names which you host and can even start a reseller business, as the two Control Panels offer this a functionality. When you add the Managed Services upgrade, we will also perform OS upgrades weekly and will make sure that your server is protected and it has the latest software all the time, in order to ensure the optimum performance for your web sites.