CentOS is an abbreviation for Community Enterprise OS. This is one of the top Linux distributions for servers and it's regarded as one of the most dependable and safe Operating Systems available. CentOS is open-source software, so you'll be able to customize it in any way you see fit, adding and removing packages or updating the program code of any of them. It is also free to distribute and use, so you will not need to pay any kind of license fees, meaning that the total price that you will need to pay for a server running CentOS will be more affordable as compared to the price for a server running some other OS. What makes CentOS stand out among other Linux distributions is its huge developer community, that will help you get the answer to any question or problem you have. What's more, each version that is released officially is supported for a decade, that's is longer than with any alternative OS. What this means is routine safety and stability updates that provides a reliable software setting for your web applications in the long run.

CentOS in VPS Hosting

CentOS is one of the Operating System possibilities offered by our VPS hosting services. You'll get an efficient, safe and dependable machine equipped with a 32- or 64-bit OS, depending on the choice that you've made during the signup process. You'll also be able to pick from the Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting Control Panels - something, that is not possible with other Linux distributions. These options will give you the opportunity to choose what you would like to do with the VPS - to host your own Internet sites and to manage the whole server as a very powerful account, or to set up a number of accounts and provide access to others if, for instance, you want to start a website hosting reseller business. When you are more experienced and you want a server with CentOS, however without the further software that's usually installed on it, you're able to order a VPS without Control Panel. This will allow you to entirely modify the software environment for your websites.

CentOS in Dedicated Web Hosting

If you decide to buy one of the dedicated server plans that we offer, you'll be able to pick the CentOS Operating System for your new machine. Since it is very light and efficient, you will be able to utilize all of the system resources for your Internet site. CentOS supports all of the 3 website hosting Control Panels which we provide - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. In this way, you can use the dedicated server for virtually 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 may also get a server with no Control Panel and set up any custom software which you need, in place 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 during the registration process or at any later time, we'll perform weekly CentOS updates besides the other things which are included in the bundle.