Dedicated Cloud Hosting, Edge & Dedicated Servers

The term "Dedicated Cloud Server" describes a single-tenant cloud server. This is different from a "cloud server". The difference is that the term "cloud server" refers to a virtual server that resides on a multi-tenant cloud computing system whose resources are shared by many users. The term "dedicated cloud server" is a term that describes a single-tenant cloud server, an infrastructure that is created and used exclusively by a single tenant.
The dedicated cloud server may run as a virtual instance on a bare-metal server or on a cluster of bare-metal servers operating as a cloud computing system using the user's preferred virtualization technology.
Each dedicated cloud server is virtualized by default and does not run an operating system and applications installed on bare-metal (physical) servers.
As an infrastructure, the dedicated cloud server has the following layers: Physical Layer, Hypervisor Layer, Virtual Machine (Cloud Server) Layer, Virtual Network Layer, Operating System (OS) Layer, and Application Layer.
A dedicated cloud server is a completely isolated cloud computing system with dedicated computing CPU, memory (RAM), and data storage space. The user of the dedicated cloud server has full root access and control over the physical server, the virtualization platform used, the operating system, network settings, and security configurations.
The dedicated cloud server uses a dedicated physical infrastructure. The infrastructure provider may own the hardware, but does not have the right to access the virtualization technology, operating system, and application environment.

The term "Dedicated Cloud Hosting" describes a cloud hosting service designed for and used by a single tenant. A system used to provide dedicated cloud hosting service can be a standalone cloud-ready (virtualized) bare metal server or a single-tenant cluster of physical servers, using a computer virtualization technology, that work together in a compute cloud. In both scenarios, the processing operations and data storage are physically separated between two or more different virtual or bare-metal infrastructure environments. Any form of dedicated cloud hosting system (either based on a system of clustered servers or on a single server) is virtualized by default and does not run an operating system installed on top of the physical servers.
The computer systems that provide dedicated cloud hosting services have the following layers: Infrastructure hardware layer; Infrastructure hypervisor layer; Virtual machine (virtual server) layer; Operating system (OS) layer; and Application layer.
When an organization uses a dedicated cloud hosting service, it does not share the resources of its cloud computing system, such as processing power (CPU), memory (RAM), and data storage space, with other users.
The user of a dedicated cloud hosting infrastructure has complete control over it, including the ability to choose the virtualization technology and cloud computing platform, operating systems, network architecture of the dedicated cloud, IPv4 and IPv6 settings, and security policies.
It is very important to note that any dedicated cloud hosting system must be a completely private cloud infrastructure and although the provider may own the hardware, but does not have the right to access the system and its components without authorization from the organization using the infrastructure. The dedicated cloud hosting system is effectively the private property of the user.
There are different dedicated cloud hosting technology models that an organization can use depending on its specific needs. For example, a "dedicated cloud system" (a virtualized cluster of servers) or a "dedicated cloud server" (a physical server with hardware redundancy and failover protection for data storage).

Yes. The user of the dedicated cloud hosting service has a complete control over their infrastructure - either a dedicated cloud server or a single-tenant cluster of servers.
In general, with cloud hosting, the companies that provide public cloud services in the form of virtual infrastructure environments (also known as "Cloud Servers") own and manage the physical infrastructure layers ("Infrastructure hardware layer" and "Infrastructure hypervisor layer") and the virtual network applying their own automation procedures and policies. The customer cannot fully apply its own customized and comprehensive security policy.
When an organization uses a single-tenant dedicated cloud hosting system or a dedicated cloud server, it manages itself both physical infrastructure layers - Infrastructure hardware layer" and "Infrastructure hypervisor layer" - itself, while possibly using the provider's staff to troubleshoot in case of a hardware component failure. The user of the dedicated cloud infrastructure manages the virtual network itself and applies its own custom automation procedures and security policies.

Yes, we do. Host Color provides Dedicated Hosting services from various U.S. and international locations. In the United States, we deliver Bare-Metal Servers from Albany, Albuquerque, Amarillo, Ashburn, Atlanta, Austin, Bend Oregon, Billings, Birmingham, Boise, Boston, Casper, Cedar Rapids, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, El Paso, Fresno, Honolulu, Herndon, Houston, Indianapolis, Jackson, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Madison, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, Newark, New York City, Omaha, Tustin / Orange County, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Seattle, Spokane, St. Louis, Tampa, and Tulsa. All Dedicated Server plans are connected to physical ports from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps and are customized to the client's preferred hardware and software configurations.
If you need Cloud hosting or a Dedicated Server in Europe, please go to HostcolorEurope.com.

We recommend using Proxmox VE. The Proxmox VE High Availability (HA) cluster allows you to create your own dedicated cloud infrastructure starting with just 2 physical and 1 virtual node. If a cloud virtual machine (VM) created on the Proxmox-based dedicated cloud or one of the physical hosts fails, the cloud VM will automatically restart on one of the redundant nodes that are part of the HA cluster.
If you cannot build a dedicated cloud infrastructure yourself, the HostColor team is be happy to help. We can build and manage your infrastructure as part of our semi-managed and managed infrastructure services.

Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks typically result in service unavailability and thousands of dollars in data transfer service fees, especially if you host your IT infrastructure with one of the major hyperscale cloud providers. HostColor's DDoS-protected Web Hosting accounts, VPS, Cloud Servers and Bare Metal Servers minimize the risk of service unavailability and virtually eliminate the risk of you incurring data transfer costs as a result of artificial, bot-generated traffic to your server instances.
When you use our web hosting services, your applications run behind sophisticated DDoS protection firewalls, maximizing application availability. Our natural, enterprise-grade DDoS networks protect your IT infrastructure from unexpected network downtime, protecting your business from loss and revenue. Our DDoS-protected network services filter out malicious traffic and ensure that legitimate traffic requests reach your servers and applications. Specifically, our DDoS protection includes the following capabilities:

• Real-time mitigation of malicious attacks
• Human-generated traffic reaching your web hosting account or server
• Native protection against network attacks of any size
• No additional fees or charges for DoS and DDoS protected servers and infrastructure
• No fees for bot-generated and malicious traffic on all unmetered dedicated servers and unmetered clouds
• No increased latency and long round-trip delays in application delivery in the event of a network attack
• All IPv4 and IPv6 settings protected from DDoS attacks

1. HostColor teams up with top-notch partners worldwide — Tier 3 and Tier 4 data centers — to give you access to over 100 Edge Server Hosting locations. We make it easy for you to deliver application services to your clients instantly with less than 5 ms network delay.
2. Our cloud hosting services are more transparent, safer and more secure than the big hyperscale cloud providers. When you use HostColor's cloud hosting, your data is private property and no one can touch it. It is the opposite of the big clouds where your data is subject to complex policies and terms and conditions that you cannot control.
3. We charge you less for Semi-Managed Dedicated and Edge Servers than the so-called "Major Clouds" do for unmanaged cloud services. HostColor's Dedicated Servers & Edge Hosting services feature large bandwidth quotas. Your monthly bill won't go up as long as you don't increase your CPU and RAM resources and data storage quota. We don't charge our Web Hosting, VPS, and Cloud Server clients for IOPS, DNS zones, DNS queries, or data transfers. Our infrastructure-as-a-service plans include free technical support.
Check out HostColor's Edge Infrastructure locations and choose one that's close to your target market.

“Managed Cloud” is a term that describes a cloud infrastructure (cloud hosting) with included technical support and system administration of the infrastructure environment. Depending on the Service Level Agreement (SLA) the Managed Cloud may or may not include system administration and support of the network and software configurations, security settings, installed operating systems, the installed software applications, maintenance, and data backups.
The cloud infrastructure sold by the major hyperscaler clouds such as AWS and Azure is "Unmanaged" by default and there is no customer support or system and technical administration included in the service. If the users need to use a support they have to pay an additional fee to access the support. It usually starts at $100/month
All cloud infrastructure offered by HostColor is a "semi-managed cloud" and includes some level of system administration by default.

Yes, we do provide WordPress Hosting in various forms. Hosted WordPress CMS is available with all standard Cloud website hosting service plans which start at $2.99/month. The next option, which is suitable for resource-demanding Wordpress-based websites is either a VPS hosted on a standalone physical server or a Cloud VM, hosted on our Proxmox VE-powered cloud computing infrastructure that feature fault-tolerant storage and various customizations and scalability options. You can use either fast enterprise SATA or enterprise Solid State Drive storage for your WordPress website. Do not forget to review and consider using our Managed Website service plans, which allow you to outsource the technical administration of your account and website to HostColor.

HostColor (HC) provides Edge Dedicated Servers and Edge Cloud Server Infrastructure from over 100 data centers worldwide. The list of data center locations is available in the Data Centers section. We use many independent Tier 3 and Tier 4 class telecommunications facilities and some of the top primary data centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America. HC is also a partner in the Equinix IT ecosystem, which means we can provide enterprise computing capacity in virtually any Equinix data center worldwide.

The first thing to consider is having two operational centers for your IT infrastructure in two different physical data center locations. By "different physical data center locations," we mean having at least 100 miles (100 km) between the two data centers where you have your infrastructure. It is important to consider the risk of natural disasters for each geographic location.
Then, both infrastructure locations must be interconnected and the applications and data either backed up or mirrored. In the event of a failure of the primary IT infrastructure site, operations are switched to the redundant site according to a specific readiness level scenario and procedure. The latter depends on the chosen disaster recovery and business continuity model.
We recommend using a dedicated cloud hosting service to protect your applications and data from failure and loss.

Disaster Recovery, or DR, refers to an organization's readiness to preserve its IT environment and data, and to execute a plan to resume technology operations after an interruption caused by an outage, loss of data, significant temporary failure, or permanent failure of its IT infrastructure.
"Dedicated Cloud Disaster Recovery" refers to the use of an organization's own physical IT infrastructure, hosted in a data center, or a leased dedicated cloud hosting service, used for disaster recovery purposes. Both have one major and very important advantage over any DR infrastructure hosted in one of the large hyperscale clouds. It is that the Dedicated Cloud Disaster Recovery infrastructure is deployed, managed and governed solely under the organization owner's internal data retention policies and procedures. Any DR infrastructure deployed as part of the Dedicated Cloud Disaster Recovery model is 100% owned by the organization.

No. The hyperscalers are great for scaling up and down IT operations of cloud-native based application environments in real time. They are not a good option for hosting a reliable, cost-effective disaster recovery IT infrastructure.
A successful and reliable DR strategy must rely on an organization's own collocated or leased dedicated infrastructure hosted in a robust, higher-standard data center outside of the major clouds such as AWS, Azure, and other major hyperscalers. Why? Because the leased infrastructure hosted in the hyperscale clouds is neither dedicated nor physically owned by the enterprise. It is owned by the cloud providers and governed by complex internal policies that include various cloud lock-in scenarios, including intentionally confusing and extremely expensive data migration options.
The primary goal of large hyperscale clouds is to prevent customers from migrating their IT infrastructure and hosted data elsewhere. To do this, the large clouds implement a sophisticated model of ever-increasing recurring costs at every level of service - from the cost of compute and storage, to the high cost of moving data in use, to supporting the technology infrastructure. By default, the nature of such a business model is exactly the opposite of the DR scenario that every organization needs. The nature of the DR scenario is to enable data and application owners to extract and move data from their primary infrastructure point of presence (POP) as quickly and easily as possible. To do this, each organization must have complete control and little to no restrictions over the process of moving data from their primary cloud infrastructure point to their DR site.

An organization that wants to implement a disaster recovery scenario must have a separate, redundant IT infrastructure operations center that hosts either "hot" or "cold" operational or archive copies of it's data and applications. There are various technology frameworks and scenarios for building and maintaining a disaster recovery infrastructure. Here are the best practices for a disaster recovery infrastructure:

Colocated Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure
The colocated dedicated cloud hosting model requires the organization to purchase its own physical infrastructure-routers, switches, firewalls, and servers used for processing power and storage-and colocate it with any data center or colocation hosting provider. The organization can own the server equipment used for data processing and storage and lease the networking equipment, or it can own all of the equipment used. The colocation model for primary or DR infrastructure requires the enterprise owner to take responsibility for the maintenance and technical support of the hosted physical equipment.

Leased Dedicated Cloud Infrastructure
The leased dedicated cloud hosting model means that the organization leases hardware appliances and bare metal servers from a provider that is responsible for the support and maintenance of the entire physical infrastructure. This model allows the organization that needs to deploy its primary or DR IT infrastructure to focus on building and maintaining the technology environment in which the applications and data are hosted, without having to worry about the maintenance and support of the physical infrastructure.
After selecting one of the DR infrastructure models described above, the organization must decide which physical locations and technology framework to use.
The DR strategy can include the use of an operating system (OS) environment with an OS installed directly on the bare metal servers. It can use any virtualization technology that creates a single virtual machine in which the applications run and the data is hosted.
The DR infrastructure should be physically located in a data center facility at least 100 miles (160 km) from the primary infrastructure site to eliminate the risk of both IT sites becoming inoperable in the event of an unforeseen event or major natural disaster.
The disaster recovery scenario may rely on hosting cold data and archive copies that can be used to build a new infrastructure. This is a DR scenario with a low level of business continuity readiness.
A better disaster recovery plan is to set up the DR site in a way that reduces the time it takes to restore normal technology operations. This includes the use of mirrored infrastructure and virtualization technology environments where DR copies of applications and data are kept close to their operational state.

Dedicated Cloud Business Continuity describes an active, fully operational dedicated cloud hosting infrastructure model that enables an organization to maintain its technology operations and workflow with virtually no interruption in the event of a failure or outage of its primary technology infrastructure.