CentOS is an abbreviation for Community Enterprise Operating System. This is one of the leading Linux distributions for servers and it's recognized as one of the most reliable and secure Operating Systems available. CentOS is open-source software, which means that you'll be able to personalize it in whatever way you see fit, adding and removing packages or updating the program code of any of them. It's also free to distribute and use, so you will not have to pay any license fees, meaning that the overall price that you'll have to pay for a server making use of CentOS will be lower than the price for a server working with some other OS. What makes CentOS stand out among other Linux releases is its huge developer community, which will help you find the answer to any kind of question or problem you might have. What's even more, each version that's released officially is supported for 10 years, that is is much longer than with any other OS. What this means is frequent protection and stability updates which provides a reliable software setting for all your web apps in the long run.

CentOS in VPS

If you order one of our virtual private server packages, you will see CentOS as one of the Operating System options on the registration page. You can decide to set up either the 32-bit or the 64-bit release of CentOS, according to the software that you wish to install later. In contrast to other Linux distributions, CentOS supports different web hosting Control Panels as well, so you will be able to choose Hepsia, cPanel or DirectAdmin, each of which can be installed throughout the VPS creation, as well as web server software, MySQL server software, and so on. When you need a VPS for some other purpose or if you need different software on it, you will be able to order your server without any Control Panel and you'll obtain a machine with CentOS and the Apache web server software only. With a CentOS-powered virtual server from us, you will enjoy a protected and reliable hosting service for all your sites.

CentOS in Dedicated Hosting

When you decide to get one of the dedicated server plans which we provide, you can pick the CentOS Operating System for your machine. As it's very light and quick, you will be able to utilize all the system resources for your Internet site. CentOS supports all of the 3 hosting Control Panels which we offer - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. This way, you're able to use the dedicated server for any kind of purpose - to host all of your personal sites in just a single account, to set up separate Control Panels for each domain name or even to resell website hosting packages to other people. Also, you can purchase a server without a Control Panel and install any custom software that you need, instead of the default applications 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 weekly CentOS updates besides all the other things that are included in the bundle.