Selecting the Operating System Right for Your Needs
Once you have selected the appropriate server hardware to fit your needs, the next step is selecting which operating system to use.
Choosing the right operating system is an important part of the process as it is the crucial software that is going to manage your computer’s resources, control and allocate your computer’s memory, prioritize system requests, control input and output devices, facilitate computer networking, and manage files.
Superb Hosting offers several different operating systems including Linux/Unix-based operating systems and Microsoft Windows based operating systems. The particular operating system or family (Linux or Microsoft Windows) that you choose is going to be wholly dependent on your eventual use of the server. You can always make a request if you need an operating system not on this list.
Note: For Linux users, we do recommend CentOS.
Operating Systems We Install
The following operating systems are the standard, available for install:
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- CentOS (7.x or newer) – you can check out their website here, Centos.org
- Fedora (26+) – you can check out their website here, FedoraProject.org
- Debian (7.x or newer) – you can check out their website here, Debian.org
- Ubuntu (14.04+) – you can check out their website here, Ubuntu.com
- FreeBSD (10.1+) – you can check out their website here, FreeBSD.org
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Server 7+) – you can check out their website here, redhat.com
- Windows Server 2008 Web (1-2 CPU) Max. 4GBs of RAM – you can check out their website here, Windows Web Server 2008
- Windows Server 2008 Datacenter (1-2 CPU) Max. 64GBs of RAM – you can check out their website here, Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (1-2 CPU) Max. 64GBs of RAM – you can check out their website here, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
- Windows Server 2008 Standard (1-2 CPU) Max. 4GBs of RAM – you can check out their website here, Windows Server 2008 Standard
- Windows Server 2012 Standard (64bit)
- Windows Server 2012 Datacenter (64bit)
- Windows Server 2016 Standard (64bit)
- Windows Server 2016 Datacenter (64bit)
- Windows Server 2019 (coming soon!!)
Note: Windows 2008 is available in both x86 (32bit) and x64(64bit) versions
Control Panel Compatibility
- Parallels Plesk: For a complete list of compatible operating systems pertaining to Plesk, please see the Parallels website for: Compatible Operating Systems
- cPanel: For a complete list of compatible operating systems pertaining to CPanel, please see the CPanel website to view the Operating System requirements.
