CentOS is short for Community Enterprise OS. This is one of the best Linux distributions for servers and it is recognized as one of the most stable and protected Operating Systems available. CentOS is open-source software, so you can customize it in whatever way you see fit, adding and removing packages or modifying the code of all of them. It is also free to distribute and use, so you will not have to pay any license fees, which means that the overall price that you'll have to pay for a server running CentOS will be lower as compared to the price for a server running another OS. What makes CentOS stand out among other Linux releases is its huge developer community, which will help you get the answer to any question or problem you may have. Furthermore, each version that's released officially is supported for a decade, that is is longer than with any other OS. This means regular security and stability updates that provides a great software setting for your web apps in the long run.

CentOS in VPS Servers

CentOS is available with each and every VPS server that we offer and you will be able to select it through the order process from among a few other Operating Systems. Determined by the software that you need to install and run, you'll be able to pick between the 32-bit and the 64-bit version and your new VPS will be installed and operating soon after that. CentOS supports all of the three web hosting Control Panels which we provide - cPanel and Hepsia. This will allow you to choose if you would like to use the server for your Internet sites and to control it as a single large account, or if you want to be able to create various hosting accounts and resell them to other people. Of course, you can also acquire a VPS with no Control Panel and you will get a server with an Operating System and the Apache web server software, but nothing else on it, so that you can install only the software that you want for your applications.

CentOS in Dedicated Servers

If you decide to get one of the dedicated server packages which we offer, you can choose the CentOS Operating System for your machine. As it is very light and efficient, you will be able to utilize all the resources for your Internet site. CentOS supports all 3 hosting Control Panels that we provide - Hepsia and cPanel. Thus, you're able to use the dedicated server for any purpose - to host all of your personal sites in a single account, to make separate Control Panels for each and every domain or even to resell hosting plans to other people. You can also acquire a server without a Control Panel and set up any custom software that you need, instead of the default apps that we install on each machine that is ordered with a Control Panel. If you add our optional Managed Services bundle throughout the sign-up process or at any later time, we'll perform regular CentOS updates besides the other things that are part of the bundle.