CentOS is short for Community Enterprise OS. This is one of the top Linux distributions for servers and it's well known as one of the most reliable and risk-free Operating Systems available. CentOS is open-source software, which means that you are able to customize it in whatever way you see fit, adding and removing packages or altering the program code of all of them. It's also free to distribute and use, so you won't need to pay any license fees, meaning that the total price that you will have to pay for a server running CentOS will be cheaper as compared to the price for a server running another OS. What makes CentOS unique among various other Linux releases is its huge developer community, which will help you get the reply to any kind of question or problem you might have. Furthermore, each version which is released officially is supported for 10 years, that is is a lot longer than with any other operating system. This means regular security and stability updates that will provide a reliable software setting for all your web applications in the long run.

CentOS in VPS Servers

CentOS is offered with each and every VPS server that we supply and you can select it through the order process from among a couple of other Operating Systems. Determined by the software which you would like to set up and run, you can select between the 32-bit and the 64-bit version and your new VPS will be up and running soon after that. CentOS supports all three web hosting Control Panels that we supply - cPanel, DirectAdmin and Hepsia. This will allow you to choose if you'd like to use the server for your personal web sites and to control it as one large account, or if you want to be able to make multiple website hosting accounts and resell them to other people. Of course, you may also obtain a VPS without any Control Panel and you'll get a server with an Operating System and the Apache web server software, but nothing else on it, so that you can set up just the software which you want for your applications.

CentOS in Dedicated Servers

When you decide to acquire one of the dedicated server packages that we supply, you can select the CentOS Operating System for your machine. Since it is very light and fast, you will be able to utilize all the resources for your Internet site. CentOS supports all three website hosting Control Panels which we offer - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. This way, you will be able to use the dedicated server for virtually any purpose - to host all of your personal Internet sites in a single account, to make separate Control Panels for each domain name or even to resell hosting plans to other people. Also, you can purchase a server with no Control Panel and install any custom-made software that you need, in place of the default apps that we install on each machine that is ordered with a Control Panel. If you add the optional Managed Services bundle throughout the signup process or at any later time, we will perform regular CentOS updates besides all the other things that are part of the bundle.