Each virtual or dedicated hosting machine has its own Os and works separately from the hosting machines of other clients. Updating the Operating system is often ignored, but doing that could have a wide range of benefits for your sites. The most essential reason to use the most recent version is that patches are typically released to fix security holes within the Operating System code, so if you do not install the updates, you risk people with malicious intentions to use these holes and to access your content. Operating system updates are also released for improved functionality of the system as a whole and for better compatibility with the hardware on the market, which could immediately influence the performance of your sites. If the performance and the security of your scripts is the reason to update them, you might also know that their newest versions require an updated Os in order to operate effectively, consequently keeping the OS up-to-date is always wise.
Weekly OS Update in VPS Servers
If you employ one of our Virtual Private Servers, you could take advantage of our Managed Services pack, which incorporates numerous admin tasks that our administrators can perform on your server. Among them you will discover the Operating System update service, so in case you add the pack to your VPS server plan, we shall keep your Operating system up-to-date consistently. This is valid for all three Operating Systems which we provide - CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. With this service, you will not need to be concerned about server-side security problems and you can employ it if you don't have loads of experience with maintaining a Linux server or if you simply don't have time to take care of such matters. After every update our admins will make certain that all sites and offline apps that you have on the hosting server are functioning properly.
Weekly OS Update in Dedicated Servers
In case you do not have the time to update the Os of your dedicated server or you are not incredibly experienced and you simply don't have the skills to do that, you could take full advantage of our OS update service, which is included with the Managed Services upgrade. The latter can be added to your account any time and our system administrators will update the Operating System that you have selected during the signup - Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS, with all officially released patches. They'll also thoroughly check if the software on your hosting machine is operating the way it'sdesigned to after the update in order to avoid any issues in the future. You shall have a secure server at all times since the updates are performed weekly.