CentOS is short for Community Enterprise OS. This is one of the leading Linux releases for servers and it is well known as being one of the most dependable and safe Operating Systems on the market. CentOS is open-source software, so you are able to personalize it in whatever way you see fit, adding and removing packages or modifying the program code of all of them. It's also free to distribute and use, so you will not need to pay any kind of license fees, meaning that the total price that you'll need to pay for a server making use of CentOS will be cheaper than the price for a server running another OS. What makes CentOS unique among various other Linux distributions is its huge developer community, that will help you discover the answer to any question or problem you might have. What's even more, each version that is released officially is supported for 10 years, which is a lot longer than with any alternative OS. This means frequent safety and stability updates that provides a reliable software setting for all your web apps in the long run.

CentOS in VPS Servers

CentOS is offered with each and every VPS server that we provide and you will be able to select it during the order process from among a couple of other Operating Systems. Depending on the software that you'd like to install and run, you can select between the 32-bit and the 64-bit version and your new VPS will be online soon after that. CentOS supports all the three web hosting Control Panels that we provide - 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 set up many web hosting accounts and eventually resell them to others. Of course, you may also buy a VPS without any Control Panel and you will get a server with an OS and the Apache web server software, but no other thing on it, so you can set up only the software that you want for your applications.

CentOS in Dedicated Servers

When you decide to acquire one of the dedicated server plans that we provide, you can select the CentOS Operating System for your machine. Since it's very light and quick, you will be able to utilize all of the resources for your Internet site. CentOS supports all 3 hosting Control Panels that we offer - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. This way, you will be able to use the dedicated server for any type of purpose - to host your personal Internet sites in a single account, to make separate Control Panels for each domain name or even to resell website hosting plans to other people. You may also obtain a server without a Control Panel and set up any custom software that you need, in place of the default apps that we install on each machine that is ordered with a Control Panel. When you add the optional Managed Services bundle during the signup process or at any later time, we'll perform weekly CentOS updates besides the other things that are included in the package.