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Community-driven Enterprise Linux

CentOS is a Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is a popular distribution known for its long-term support and stability, with maintenance updates available for up to 10 years after the initial release. As CentOS is community supported software, it is offered free of charge.

Available CentOS Versions

• CentOS 8 x64
• CentOS 7 x64
• CentOS 6 i386
• CentOS 6 x64

Free Computing, Commercially Backed

Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux. It is a very popular Linux distribution with a thriving community of developers and end-users around the globe. Life cycles come in short spans (9 months), and longer spans (5 years) for LTS flavors. The operating system itself is backed by Canonical, the top Ubuntu services provider.

Available Ubuntu Versions

• Ubuntu 19.10 x64
• Ubuntu 19.04 x64
• Ubuntu 18.04 x64
• Ubuntu 16.04 i386
• Ubuntu 16.04 x64

Over 20 Years Of Development

Debian is one of the longest running operating systems built on top of the Linux kernel. Since 1993, thousands of contributors have worked on Debian to support over 70 languages, multiple system architectures, and regular software updates. In addition, Debian ships with access to an online repository of over 50,000 packages. Its lineage, support, and package availability position Debian among the top server operating systems.

Available Debian Versions

• Debian 10 x64 (buster)
• Debian 9 x64 (stretch)
• Debian 8 i386 (jessie)
• Debian 8 x64 (jessie)

The Latest Innovation In Short Cycles

Fedora is the upstream operating system of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It has a reputation for including the latest technologies and software packages into every release. In addition, Fedora is also a stable and secure Linux-based operating system, configured with Security-Enhanced Linux.

Fedora Server offers a supported lifespan of roughly 13 months, with a upgrade path available to its newer releases.

Available Fedora Versions

• Fedora 30 x64
• Fedora 29 x64

Cloud Servers Powered By Windows

Windows Server 2012 and 2016 are purpose built server operating systems from Microsoft. Similar to the desktop counterparts, Windows Server brings familiarity to the data center for Windows administrators with its graphical environment. Windows Server also offers many server-specific features such as Active Directory, IIS, Server Manager, and much more. It is secure out of the box, and includes an advanced firewall for locking down server applications.

Available windows Versions

• Windows 2016 x64 (+ License Fee)
• Windows 2012 R2 x64 (+ License Fee)

Effective September 1, 2019, Windows Licensing will be as follows:

A Leader In Container Infrastructure

CoreOS (Container Linux) is an operating system geared towards more advanced users comfortable managing a container environment. Benefits include a container management system as well as the ability to roll through OS updates seamlessly.

Free, Open-Source, and Secure

OpenBSD is a UNIX-like operating system that originated in the mid 1990s. It is widely known for its portability, code correctness, and proactive approach on security. In addition, the folks behind the OpenBSD project maintain other well known security-oriented projects such as OpenSSH and LibreSSL.

Available OpenBSD Versions

• OpenBSD 6.6 x64
• OpenBSD 6.5 x64

An Advanced System Derived From BSD

FreeBSD is a modern multi-user operating system with roots dating back to the 1970s. This UNIX-based operating system powers some of the busiest websites on the internet and is used by some of the largest IT organizations. FreeBSD's long list of features includes advanced networking, storage, security (firewall and jails), virtualization, and much more.

Available FreeBSD Versions

• FreeBSD 12 x64
• FreeBSD 11 x64

cPanel is an incredibly popular control panel for web servers. Much of cPanel's popularity has grown from its user-friendly management interface. Through cPanel, you can manage email accounts, databases, security settings, and many other website aspects. File transfer is easy too - try the web-based file manager, or utilize traditional methods like FTP/SFTP/FTPS.

cPanel and WHM

cPanel is a multi-tiered software package. The cPanel portion of the package is a control panel for managing a website. WHM offers hosting providers with a panel to manage each account on a server. Both programs provide a role-based strategy for managing websites. When deploying on OpanHost, you will have full access to each of these cPanel suites.

License comparison

cPanel license costs auto-update and vary based on the highest number of cPanel accounts registered on your server in a calendar month.

*cPanel requires a plan with at least 2GB of memory.

Simplified Server Management

Plesk Onyx is a powerful control panel built to make management of your websites and apps simple. The easy to use dashboard includes options to add/manage websites, customize DNS, access web statistics, schedule security updates, and much more. Complex website management can be done in just a few clicks. And Plesk's built-in code editor lets you modify your websites' files on the fly.

License comparison

Point & Click Management

Deploy a Cloud Instance with Webmin and you will be managing your next project over the web in just seconds. Webmin provides a URL that allows you to login to your server and perform system administration tasks such as user management, service control, firewall configuration, and more.

Stable and Modular

Since its release in 1997, Webmin has continued to gain popularity. The software is built on modules, which makes it easy to enhance its functionality. Webmin offers a repository of user-contributed modules and themes on their official site.

Online In Moments

one-click LAMP application will launch a web-connected LAMP stack in just moments. This means that you will have instant access to a working MySQL database and modern PHP installation. Simply upload your PHP pages and they will be accessible through your browser.

The Standard In Open-Source

Apache is a leading web server that powers millions of sites on the internet. Modern versions of Apache can rival the performance of event-based web servers like Nginx. Apache also offers a plethora of features. Some of the highlights include HTTP/2 support, GZIP compression, IPv6 support, and load balancing.

Start Developing Now

Save yourself the hassle of configuring your own LEMP server, and use our ready-to-go configuration. When launching a LEMP server, you will be able to instantly write PHP pages that appear on the internet. There is no need to wrestle with firewall settings.

Nginx Performance

Nginx is a high performance web server. By design, it is capable of handling more than 10,000 simultaneous connections. Power users can also dive deep into other features offered by Nginx, such as file caching and load balancing.

Instant OLS Stack

Get started on deploying your next PHP application using our pre-built OpenLiteSpeed stack. The admin portal, firewall, and database are pre-configured and ready for the web!

Powerful Features

OpenLiteSpeed is based on the enterprise web server, LiteSpeed. It boasts powerful features, including an event-driven architecture, Apache rewrite support, cache acceleration, bandwidth throttling, and much more!

Most popular blogging system

WordPress was started in 2003 and is now used by over 20% of the top 10 million websites. Use WordPress for your next website or blog. Launching a WordPress application on OpanHost will take you to the WordPress setup page, which lets you fit the application to your needs.

Serious customization

WordPress supports both themes and plugins - many of which are provided for free by the WordPress service and its user community. The software makes it simple to add new themes and switch between them. Web developers can also create their own designs for WordPress.

The Full Featured Content Management System (CMS)

Joomla is known as a top player among CMS applications. Joomla was initially released in 2005 as a fork from Mambo. Since then, Joomla has received regular updates, and has seen explosive growth. It currently powers millions of websites.

Endless Possibilities

The benefit to using a CMS is that it requires little technical skill to manage your content. This makes Joomla a great choice for building many types of websites, including (but not limited to):

• Corporate web sites.
• Blogs and magazines.
• E-commerce applications.
• Personal or community web sites.

Being an open source application, Joomla also has a strong userbase. It is easy to extend Joomla's capabilities by visiting the Extensions Directory. Need an updated look? There are plenty of communities around the web that specialize in Joomla templates.

The Best in Content Management

The official release of Drupal, also known as Drupal core, is a powerful content management system that was started in the early 2000s. It can be used for content management, blogging, forums, and even entire websites. When launching a one-click Drupal app on OpanHost, you'll be able to start adding your own content in just moments.

Open Source, Community Driven

Drupal is fully open-source and has a strong developer community. Developers are constantly releasing new modules, themes, and other add-ons.

The core functionality can be extended by installing modules, which over 30,000 are available. Many of these are community built. Don't like the standard "look" for Drupal websites? Install one of the thousands of custom themes built for it. The possibilities are endless.

The Largest Brands Use Magento

Magento Community Edition is a powerful open-source commerce system. Its strong backing of over 150,000 developers and 250,000 merchants around the globe make it a rock-solid choice your next commerce project. Magento also hosts a Marketplace with thousands of extensions that make it quick and easy to expand the application's native features.

Frontend, Backend, and Analytics

The Magento storefront is a result of years of refined design. Customers can create accounts and start ordering your products immediately. The backend is quite intuitive. Adding new items is as simple as answering a few questions. And when it comes time to analyze sales, Magento's built-in reporting and analytics keeps your data within your control.

Open a Digital Storefront

Ready to take your business online? PrestaShop makes it easy for you to open a shop on the internet. The application is split into two parts: "back office" and "front office". The back office portion is the administration panel. It includes a stats dashboard for sales, catalog builder, product editor, order management tools, and much more. The front office portion is a modern web 2.0 storefront. Visitors can browse products, fill a shopping cart, and order items for direct delivery.

Pluggable and Upgradable

In addition to being fully open-source, Prestashop has modules and plugins that can be activated from within the back office. This essential feature makes it possible to change themes and add new features on the fly. Make your storefront stand out with customization.

Powerful Wiki Software

Mediawiki is the same open-source software that powers Wikipedia, a premier Web 2.0 application.

Mediawiki can be used to build collaborative content on the web. Its design is quite versatile, making it well suited as a knowledge base, documentation hub, or even a news site. You don't need to be a web designer to create premium content, thanks to the built-in "wikitext" format.

One click installation

With one-click installation, you're ready to start test-driving Mediawiki's extensive feature list. In addition to content management, Mediawiki supports:

• Easy navigation.
• Create, edit, and format content.
• File uploads.
• Embedding images.
• Linking content.
• Access control with user management.
• Discussion between users.

Deploy And Scale Faster

Containers are a new technology that can be used to speed up both application development and deployment. Once you have the Docker engine running, containers only take a few seconds to power up. If you were looking for an alternative to virtualization, now is the time to try something new.

Based On Open Standards

It took just a few short years for Docker to transform into one of the most popular open source projects. With Docker, you get all the benefits of open source, including great communities. Docker Hub, for example, houses thousands of pre-built containers created by people from around the world.

Your Code Under Your Control

Social coding has been one of the most beneficial advents in the history of software. But what about when you need to keep your source code private? GitLab features a very intuitive web interface for managing Git repositories while keeping you in control of your code.

More Than Just a Repository Browser

GitLab is packed with features for administering Git repositories. It includes a user access system which lets you organize who can participate in your projects. Other features include web-based file editing, activity logs, wiki, and issue tracking system.

Why invest time in building your source code infrastructure when you could be setup with GitLab in moments? GitLab is a one stop solution for any software project.

Complete Shell Access

Minecraft is known for its ability to be customized. After deploying a Minecraft server, you will have shell access to its VPS, allowing you to customize and install any mods that you see fit. Let OpanHost handle the VPS setup, which gives you more flexibility to modify and tweak your server.

Performance Game Servers

OpanHost runs high performance, low-latency networks around the world. Say "goodbye" to lag when hosting your next Minecraft server on OpanHost.

Connect In Moments, Surf Securely

OpenVPN includes easy setup tools for popular platforms (Windows / Mac OS X / Android / iOS / Linux). When connected to your OpenVPN server, all of your internet traffic is secured with SSL. While you browse the web, your IP address will show as the IP address of your VPS. Having this extra security layer prevents people from tracking you and launching attacks against your home network.

Access Server Control Panel Included

OpenVPN Access Server is a premium VPN solution offered by OpenVPN Technologies Inc. It includes a web-based control panel which provides many features to customize your VPN. You can login to the Access Server any time to see which computers are currently connected. To simplify administration, updates in Access Server are applied to your VPN immediately.

Community Driven Cloud Software

Nextcloud started in 2016 as a fork of the popular ownCloud software. The Nextcloud team focuses on an open and transparent development process between its developers and users. As such, anyone can get involved in all aspects of Nextcloud, such as improvement, design, and testing.

A Plethora of File Sharing Features

Upon logging into Nextcloud, you'll feel right at home with its web-based file sharing features that you would normally see on commercial file-sharing websites. Uploading and downloading files takes just a few clicks. You won't need to bother with hefty email attachments anymore either. Any files uploaded into Nextcloud can be converted to a URL and shared. The Nextcloud team also provides desktop clients which can connect to your personal Nextcloud server.

Additionally, NextCloud is quite modular. The "Apps" portion allows you to customize Nextcloud with new features such as Calendar, Contacts, enhanced authentication, and more.

Your Cloud, Your Way

Being able to access your files from anywhere is just the beginning. ownCloud comes bundled with tools to help organize you on the web. Need to edit a file in a hurry? Try the built-in document editor. Can't remember if you have somewhere to go this evening? Log into ownCloud and check your calendar. It can be tedious to manage your contacts from different devices - manage them from a single portal instead.

Share With Anyone

One of the most prominent features in ownCloud is the ability to upload a file from one of your devices, then share it with a friend or colleague. Sharing is made easy by generating URL links to your files. Your peer will be able to download the file immediately by clicking the share link. For those with security in mind, rest assured - ownCloud has you covered. You can password-protect download links, set expiration dates on them, or even setup user accounts to access them.

Don't forget, ownCloud is more than just a website. Clients for desktop and mobile are offered for all major platforms. Start running your cloud, today!