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 High Availability Hosting offer a selection of Operating Systems for our Dedicated Servers. Choose an Operating System for more info.


Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SP2 is specifically designed for web hosting and web applications. It includes IIS 6.0, ASP.net and the .NET framework to build and deploy web applications, web pages, and XML web services.

Applications installed include:
  • Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0
  • .NET Framework 1, 2, 3
  • FTP Server
  • DNS Server
  • SMTP Server
  • POP3 Server
  • Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 Support Tools
  • Microsoft Baseline Security Advisor

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2

Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition R2 is the operating system for deploying larger applications and SQL databases. For general serving it delivers Active Directory and is able to support applications such as Exchange.

Applications installed include:
  • Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0
  • .NET Framework 1, 2, 3
  • FTP Server
  • DNS Server
  • Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 Support Tools
  • Microsoft Baseline Security Advisor

Please note Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition is required for running SQL Server.

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 is designed to run Active-Passive clusters, as well as provide failover and high availability for application services and SQL Databases.

Applications installed include:
  • Cluster Services
  • .NET Framework 1, 2, 3
  • DNS Server
  • Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 Support Tools
  • Microsoft Baseline Security Advisor

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition is required for clustering.

Windows Server 2008 Standard

Windows Server 2008 is Microsoft's latest server operating system.

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Ubuntu Server 8.04
Open Source Ubuntu Linux Server with LAMP application services.

Applications installed include:
  • Apache Tomcat Web Application Server
  • PHP, Perl, Python
  • Ruby On Rails
  • Django
  • Postegre SQL Server
  • ProFTPd Server
  • Postfix SMTP Server
  • OpenSSHd

Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 5

Redhat Enterprise provides the best of the Open Source Linux world with the support and stability of the Redhat update subscription - included in the price.

Applications installed include:
  • Apache Web Services
  • PHP, Perl, Python
  • MySQL Database Server
  • FTP Server
  • Postfix SMTP Server
  • SSHd

Solaris 10 5/08
The Open Source Operating System for the enterprise application server.

Applications available include:
  • Apache / Apache2 + Tomcat
  • PHP, Perl, Python
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Sendmail
  • wu-FTPd
  • Webmin
  • xNTPd
  • Java
  • Containers