CentOS is short for Community Enterprise Operating System. This is one of the leading Linux distributions for servers and it is regarded as one of the most dependable and risk-free Operating Systems available. CentOS is open-source software, so you are able to customize it in whatever 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 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 cheaper than the price for a server working with another OS. What makes CentOS unique among various other Linux distributions is its huge developer community, that will help you find the answer to any kind of question or problem you have. In addition, each version that's released officially is supported for a decade, that is is much longer than with any other OS. What this means is frequent safety and stability updates that provides a stable software setting for all of your web applications in the long run.

CentOS in VPS Hosting

CentOS is offered with every single virtual private server that we provide 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 would like to install and run, you're able to choose between the 32-bit and the 64-bit version and your new VPS will be all set shortly after that. CentOS supports all 3 web hosting Control Panels which we provide - cPanel, DirectAdmin and Hepsia. This will allow you to choose if you want to employ the server for your personal websites and to control it as a single large account, or if you want to be able to generate many hosting accounts and eventually resell them to others. Of course, you can also get a VPS with no Control Panel and you'll get a server with an Operating System and the Apache web server software, but nothing else on it, so you can set up just the software that you want for your apps.

CentOS in Dedicated Web Hosting

You can obtain CentOS with each and every dedicated server that we supply, because 32-bit and 64-bit releases of the OS are among the options that you can pick on our registration page. CentOS is compatible with all three web hosting Control Panels that we offer, which means that you are able to choose Hepsia, DirectAdmin or cPanel to be installed on your server. The first is appropriate for less experienced users who need a powerful web hosting solution, because a Hepsia-equipped server is controlled like one very large account, while the other two Control Panels will allow you to make various web hosting accounts on your server and even to resell the website hosting space. If you need CentOS with no additional software, you can pick a server setup with no Control Panel at all. After that you can add only the software that you need. We also offer a Managed Services upgrade, that features weekly CentOS updates.