A virtual or a dedicated hosting machine is a standalone machine, that has its own Os and always keeping the latter up-to-date is a crucial, though underrated task. Not only can an update enhance the functionality of your websites, but it could also save you a great deal of problems later on. An update may be released for several reasons, the most frequent being to fix recently identified security holes, which may enable third-party individuals to access and alter the content that you have on the server. You can also see an improved functionality of your web apps since updates could also be released for better compatibility between the Os and the configuration it functions on in order to get the most out of the hardware. Additionally, if you keep your applications up-to-date, they might need a later Operating system version which will have the needed software dependencies and will allow them to function properly.
Weekly OS Update in Dedicated Servers
In case you do not have the time to update the Operating System of your dedicated server or you aren't incredibly experienced and you simply do not have the skills to do that, you can benefit from our OS update service, which comes with the Managed Services upgrade. The latter could be included to your account any time and our system admins shall update the Operating System that you have chosen during the signup - Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS, with all officially released patches. They will also thoroughly check if the software on your hosting server is working precisely how it'sdesigned to after the update in order to avoid any problems down the road. You will have a secure hosting server at all times as the updates are performed every week.