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Businesses are embarking on the digital journey to proliferate their market presence and bring end-users close to their brand, and not to mention, increase their sales. They opt for a web hosting platform that can help them achieve their intended motifs. However, many forget examining the competency of the selected plan before they sign the dotted lines. For example, the basic shared web hosting plan is best suitable for a website that involves less computting consumption, deals with less sensitive data, and demands no granular control or high-end security implementations. If your business deal with sensitive, resource consumptive data and customers’ privacy, the above plan will spoil your experience with its limitedness. Ah, please don’t blame the service provider.
Here, the solution that fits your company’s description is a dedicated server. It hand-overs the holistic server keys to your IT administrators, allowing them to decide, which applications/database to be installed, when to boot/reboot, and whom to give access, while complying to your security standards. Besides, it provides the flexibility to select the operating system and hardware.
Today, most of the data center providers offer the two kinds of this profound offering – 
Windows dedicated server hosting and Linux dedicated server hosting. As per IT trends, Linux dedicated server hosting is on big journey, gaining wider acceptance across all business portfolios, as it pledges to ensure reduced costs and complexities, increased productivity, and enhanced security.
This blog imparts knowledge about the variant of Linux server’s so that you can cherry-pick the right option that explicitly fits your business needs:
Linux operating systems continue to push the limits beyond the capabilities of commodity servers that lacked security, performance, and extreme scalability. Sensing the potential of this open source operating system, Microsoft has even started embracing Linux publicly in recent times.
Ubuntu: This open source version deems fit for the organizations, having high-end performance requirements. The Debian-based open source OS is most preferred administrators and DevOps professionals. It has been on a roll owing to its simplicity and proficiency. It can be quickly installed and involves no registration. Besides user-friendliness, all the variants of Ubuntu that utilizes the similar applications foster each other. It also provides capabilities that help in managing hardware pools, such as processing power, storage capacity, and networking. The other best thing about this popular operating system is it allows businesses to synchronize data and applications across various devices such as desktops, smartphones, and tablets. You need to be a technical ninja to work on this platform.
- One of the secured operating systems
- Involves no licensing or maintenance fees
- Automated upgrade management
- Supports popular languages like PHP 5, Perl, Python, and Ruby on Rails
- Supports databases like MySQL, Postgresql, and Oracle Database Express
- Provides robust firewall and the SELinux policy mechanism
- Allows administrators to track certain events
Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS): CentOS is an enterprise-class computing platform that is extremely stable, fast, and manageable. This platform works well if you have experienced IT administrators to manage your dedicated hosting environment. The platform carries most of the attributes of Red Hat, and can exceptionally run the most stable versions of packaged software, keeping the server safe against unwarranted crashes. Apart from this, the server system is followed by a detailed documentation that provides end-users an ease to work. Equipped with a smorgasbord of impressive security features, including robust firewall and the SELinux policy mechanism, the platform enables swift customizations. However, the CentOS provides limited flexibility pertaining to software compatibility.
The CentOS community provides an efficient development framework for both cloud solution providers and the hosting community. Red Hat manuals and tutorials are present online that can help to troubleshoot the issues. Regular updates are offered that administrators can simply download to keep systems away from hassles and improve functionality of the system.
- Highly reliable operating system runs most stable versions of packaged software
- Provides robust firewall and the SELinux policy mechanism
- Provides limited compatibility to newer software versions
- CentOS offers an array of backporting options
Red Hat Enterprise: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is one of the leading open source platforms for enterprise workloads, being accorded by data centers across the gl obe. Businesses opting for this platform have a rewarding experience, as it provides military-grade
security and unlimited phone/web based support. Being one of the big organizations, Red Hat has collaborations with some of the leading hardware benefactors, like Dell, IBM, and HP, which eliminates the need for migrating to different hardware systems. On top of that, the RHEL subscription model delivers the customer value and provides a great flexibility to support your mission-critical workloads.
- Provides unmatched security & performance
- Provides 99.999% uptime
- Red Hat partners with specific hardware partners
- Runs your applications faster and is highly scalable
- Supports standard data center management tools
These were some of the most prevalent operating systems being accorded by clients across the globe, however, not the only ones. Depending on the priorities and applications that you want to run on your server, you can select the one that fits into your needs.
Taiba Fatima is a Delhi, India based content writer with a knack for technical writing. Her alacrity to explore new horizons and learn technological advancements add piquancy to her writing profession. Apart from technology, she is a passionate blogger and loves to write about other verticals including: BPO sector, Travel, Art & Culture.
