CentOS is an abbreviation for Community Enterprise OS. This is one of the leading Linux releases for servers and it is well known as being one of the most reliable and protected Operating Systems available. CentOS is open-source software, so you are able to personalize it in any way you see fit, adding and removing packages or updating the code of any of them. It's also free to distribute and use, so you won't need to pay any kind of license fees, which means that the overall price that you will have to pay for a server making use of CentOS will be much lower than the price for a server running an alternative OS. What makes CentOS stand out among various other Linux distributions is its huge developer community, that will help you discover the answer to any kind of question or problem you have. In addition, each version that's released officially is supported for ten years, which is a lot longer than with any alternative OS. What this means is routine security and stability updates that will provide a stable software setting for all of your web apps in the long run.
CentOS in Dedicated Servers
When you decide to acquire one of the dedicated server plans which we supply, you can choose the CentOS Operating System for your new machine. Since it's very light and quick, you will be able to utilize all the system resources for your site. CentOS supports all three website hosting Control Panels that we provide - Hepsia and cPanel. In this way, you will be able to use the dedicated server for any type of purpose - to host your personal websites in just a single account, to create separate Control Panels for each domain or even to resell website hosting plans to other people. Also, you can buy a server without a Control Panel and set up 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 our optional Managed Services bundle throughout the sign-up process or at any later time, we will perform regular CentOS updates besides the other things that are included in the package.