A virtual or a dedicated hosting server is a standalone machine, that has its own Os and maintaining the latter up-to-date is an essential, albeit underrated task. Not simply can an update boost the general performance of your websites, but it could also save you a lot of troubles down the road. An update could be released for a lot of reasons, the most frequent being to fix newly discovered security holes, which may allow third-party individuals to access and modify the content you have on the hosting server. You can also see an improved performance of your web applications as updates could also be released for better compatibility between the Os and the configuration it operates on so as to get the most out of the hardware. Furthermore, if you keep your apps up-to-date, they could also need a later Operating system version which will have the required software dependencies and will permit them to function properly.
Weekly OS Update in Dedicated Servers
If you obtain one of our Linux dedicated service and you want to have an up-to-date Os, but you have not managed your own hosting server before and you aren't confident how to do that or you just do not have the required time to manage the hosting machine, you'll be able to take advantage of the OS update service which is included in our Managed Services package. Our admins can set up the latest patches for the OS you have picked for the hosting server - CentOS, Debian or Ubuntu, and they shall make sure that all your apps are working correctly after that. The updates are done every week, so you will constantly have the latest Os version and you won't have to concern yourself with any OS-related security problems.