CentOS is an abbreviation for Community Enterprise OS. This is one of the best Linux releases for servers and it's well known as being one of the most reliable and secure Operating Systems available. CentOS is open-source software, so you will be able to personalize it in any way you see fit, adding and removing packages or changing the code of any 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 total price that you'll have to pay for a server running CentOS will be much lower than the price for a server running another OS. What makes CentOS stand out among other Linux distributions is its huge developer society, which will help you get the answer to any question or problem you have. What's even more, each version that's released officially is supported for ten years, that's is much longer than with any other OS. This means ordinary safety and stability updates which provides a dependable software setting for your web apps in the long run.

CentOS in VPS Servers

CentOS is one of the Operating System choices provided by our VPS hosting plans. You will get an efficient, safe and dependable machine along with a 32- or 64-bit OS, based on the selection that you've made during the signup process. You'll also be able to pick from the Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin web hosting Control Panels - something, that isn't possible with the other Linux releases. These options give you the opportunity to decide what you would like to do with the VPS - to host your sites and to manage the entire server as a very powerful account, or to make various accounts and provide access to other people if, for instance, you intend to start a web hosting reseller business. In case you are more experienced and you need a server with CentOS, however devoid of the extra software that is usually set up on it, you can acquire a VPS without any Control Panel. This will enable you to completely modify the software environment for your sites.

CentOS in Dedicated Servers

If you decide to obtain one of the dedicated server plans that we supply, you are able to pick the CentOS Operating System for your new machine. As it's very light and efficient, you will be able to utilize all of the system resources for your Internet site. CentOS supports all three web hosting Control Panels that we supply - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. This way, you'll be able to use the dedicated server for any purpose - to host all of your personal websites in a single account, to create separate Control Panels for each domain name or even to resell hosting packages to other people. Also, you can acquire a server with no Control Panel and install any custom software that you need, instead 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 registration process or at any later time, we will perform regular CentOS updates besides the other things which are included in the bundle.