CentOS is short for Community Enterprise OS. This is one of the leading Linux releases for servers and it is recognized as one of the most stable and risk-free Operating Systems on the market. CentOS is open-source software, so you are able to customize it in whatever way you see fit, adding and removing packages or updating the program code of all of them. It's also free to distribute and use, so you will not have to pay any kind of license fees, which means that the overall price that you'll have to pay for a server running CentOS will be more affordable as compared to the price for a server working with an alternative OS. What makes CentOS unique among various other Linux distributions is its huge developer community, that will help you find the answer to any question or problem you have. In addition, each version that's released officially is supported for ten years, that is is a lot longer than with any alternative operating system. What this means is routine protection and stability updates which provides a reliable software setting for all of your web apps in the long run.
CentOS in VPS Servers
You will be able to select CentOS for your brand new VPS server throughout the registration process. We offer 32-bit and 64-bit releases, to give you the chance to pick the one which will be more suitable for the applications that you wish to install and work with. CentOS supports different hosting Control Panels, and you will have a choice between cPanel, Hepsia and DirectAdmin, based on what you wish to do - to create a separate account for each domain hosted on the server and even to start your very own reseller business, or to host all of your domains together and control the server as one single account. You will also have the option to buy the VPS without Control Panel in case you need a machine with CentOS, yet devoid of the extra software that comes with the Control Panels. In this way, you will be able to install web or database servers that are different from the standard ones which we offer.
CentOS in Dedicated Servers
When you decide to order one of the dedicated server packages which we provide, you are able to choose the CentOS Operating System for your machine. Since it is very light and fast, you will be able to utilize all of the resources for your website. CentOS supports all of the 3 website hosting Control Panels which we supply - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. This way, you'll be able to use the dedicated server for any kind of purpose - to host all of your personal websites in a single account, to set up separate Control Panels for each and every domain or even to resell website hosting packages to other people. You may also buy a server devoid of Control Panel and install any custom-made 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 the optional Managed Services bundle during the sign-up process or at any later time, we'll perform weekly CentOS updates besides all the other things which are part of the bundle.