CentOS is short for Community Enterprise Operating System. This is one of the top Linux distributions for servers and it is well known as being one of the most reliable and safe Operating Systems on the market. CentOS is open-source software, so you can customize it in whatever way you see fit, adding and removing packages or updating the program code of all of them. It's also free to distribute and use, so you won't have to pay any license fees, which means that the overall price that you will have to pay for a server running CentOS will be cheaper than the price for a server working with an alternative OS. What makes CentOS unique among other Linux distributions is its huge developer society, that will help you get the answer to any question or problem you have. In addition, each version which is released officially is supported for ten years, that's is much longer than with any alternative operating system. This means ordinary protection and stability updates that provides a reliable software environment for all your web apps in the long run.
CentOS in Dedicated Servers
If you decide to get one of the dedicated server plans that we offer, you are able to select the CentOS Operating System for your new machine. As it is very light and quick, you will be able to utilize all of the resources for your Internet site. CentOS supports all three website hosting Control Panels that we offer - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. This way, you'll be able to use the dedicated server for any kind of purpose - to host all your personal websites in just a single account, to create separate Control Panels for each and every domain or even to resell web hosting plans to other people. Also, you can acquire a server without a Control Panel and install any custom-made 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 our optional Managed Services bundle throughout the signup process or at any later time, we'll perform regular CentOS updates besides all the other things which are part of the bundle.