CentOS is an abbreviation for Community Enterprise Operating System. This is one of the top Linux releases for servers and it's regarded as being one of the most reliable and risk-free Operating Systems on the market. CentOS is open-source software, so you'll be able to personalize it in any way you see fit, adding and removing packages or changing the code of all of them. It's also free to distribute and use, so you won't have to pay any kind of license fees, meaning that the overall price that you will have to pay for a server running CentOS will be more affordable 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 discover the answer to any question or problem you have. What's more, each version that's released officially is supported for ten years, that's is much longer than with any other operating system. What this means is frequent safety and stability updates that will provide a dependable software environment for your web apps in the long run.

CentOS in VPS Servers

CentOS is offered with every single VPS server that we supply and you'll 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 set up and run, you can select between the 32-bit and the 64-bit version and then your new VPS will be up and running shortly after that. CentOS supports all of the three web hosting Control Panels that we offer - cPanel, DirectAdmin and Hepsia. This will allow you to choose if you wish to employ the server for your web sites and to control it as one large account, or if you want to be able to generate a variety of web hosting accounts and resell them to others. Of course, you can also buy a VPS without Control Panel and you'll get a server with an OS and the Apache web server software, but nothing else on it, so that you can set up just the software that you need for your apps.

CentOS in Dedicated Servers

You can get CentOS with each dedicated server which we provide, since 32-bit and 64-bit releases of the OS are some of the options which you'll be able to pick on our order page. CentOS supports all three website hosting Control Panels that we supply, which means that you'll be able to pick Hepsia, DirectAdmin or cPanel to be set up on the server. The first is suitable for less experienced users that need a powerful website hosting solution, because a Hepsia-equipped server is managed like a very large account, while the other two Control Panels will enable you to make multiple website hosting accounts on the server and even to resell the website hosting space. If you want CentOS without any additional software, you will be able to pick a server setup with no Control Panel at all. Then you can add just the software that you need. We also offer a Managed Services upgrade, that includes weekly CentOS updates.