Host Color - Midwest Vitual Data Center & Colocation

Edge Data Centers

Cloud, Edge Bare Metal Servers & App Services in your targeted market.

Get Cloud infrastructure, Edge Bare Metal, Virtual Dedicated Servers, and custom hosting services for instant content and application delivery. Take full control over your IT infrastructure and pay transparent monthly fees without cloud lock-in, long-term contracts, or overpaying for IOPS, DNS zones, DNS queries, data transfer, and support.

WHY HOSTCOLOR?

HostColor saves your organization tens of thousands of dollars on an annual basis on data center services fees, bare-metal servers, and cloud infrastructure services. We will help you deliver lightning-fast application services to your clients with the lowest possible network delay - from 1 ms to 5 ms to the local market. Get a Cloud Server, Dedicated Server, Edge Bare Metal Server, or a VM and enjoy predictable, transparent billing and great service with no cheap tricks, hidden rules, or misleading terms of service! Our clients get the best possible IT infrastructure with 100% network uptime & 24/7 support.
100% Uptime Network, SLA guarantee

100% Uptime Network

Our NOCs deliver services using Tier 1 networks with the lowest possible round trip delays (RTT) in the U.S. and all over the world.
Solid, High Qaulity IT Infrastructure

80+ Edge Data Centers

Our clients have instant access to one of the world's largest a distributed networks of Edge Bare Metal and Cloud Servers.
VMware based infrastructure platform

Better Than The Cloud

Be closer to your clients. Deliver app services with a 5 ms network delay or less and pay less than on any major cloud.
Commitment & Excellent Business Record

Semi-Managed IaaS

Take advantage of our Semi-Managed Cloud & Edge Servers. Rely on our experience. We manage IT environments for 24 years.

Choice of Data Centers

 
Midwest U.S. Data Center

50 U.S. Edge Locations

Edge Bare Metal or Edge Cloud server connected to a 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 20 Gbps, or 30 Gbps internet port. Choose your preferred data center locations between 50 U.S. edge data center locations.
Midwest U.S. Data Center

Midwest Data Center

HostColor's primary U.S. data center is a Tier III class telecommunication facility based out of Royal Oak, Michigan. The facility's physical security controls comply with PCI-DSS v 2.0, HIPAA/HITECH, and SOC2 standards. The HC's network includes direct peering in the Detroit Internet Exchange (DET-IX) and shortened round-trip delays all over North America.
Host Color on Equinix ecosystem

Host Color in Equinix Data Centers

Host Color is part of the Equinix global ecosystem. HC is connected to Equinix Chicago, located at 350 E Cermak Rd. We can deploy computing capacity or build Dedicated Cloud for our clients in each Equinix data center in the U.S., UK, European Union, Asia, or Australia.
Asian Data Centers

Asian Data Centers

Host Color delivers Cloud services and Dedicated Servers in Asia from a number of POPs - Bangkok, Thailand (CAT Telecom Tower); Singapore (multiple facilities) and Hong Kong (multiple facilities).
European Data Centers

European Data Centers

HCE, our European entity operates from data centers in London (Equinix); Rotterdam/Den Haag, Netherlands; Paris, France (Equinix and Telehouse); Vienna, Austria (Interxion); Bratislava, Slovakia (DataCube); Sofia, Bulgaria (RAX); Helsinki, Finland; Prague, Czech Republic; Zaragoza, Spain; Athens, Greece, and other European cities. In some of those cities, we use our own infrastructure, in others, we use NOC partners who help us to deliver European Dedicated Servers, Cloud Computing & IT services with Premium SLA.
Managed Web Hostong & Managed Websites

Managed Web Hosting

No matter if you have just one website, own servers, or use Cloud IaaS, move them to Host Color. We will improve your IT environment through various Infrastructure and Managed services and will lower your TCO. Our Midwest Managed Web Hosting services are arguably the best you can find on the market. Our Cloud Server Hosting services allow your organization to move workloads to the cloud and improve your productivity. Our Cloud-ready Dedicated Servers are also a good option to create Cloud Workspaces, to use Office on the Cloud or to develop websites, apps and various software applications.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

What makes our Cloud & Edge Hosting better than others?
1. HostColor combines its own, reliable IT infrastructure with those of partner Tier 3 and Tier 4 data centers worldwide to give you a choice of 80+ Edge Server Hosting locations. We help you to deliver application services to your clients with less than 5 ms network delay.
2. Our web hosting and IT infrastructure services beat the cloud in terms of transparency, and data privacy. Unlike the major clouds where your data is exposed to various breaches, with HostColor, your data is yours. It is private property that no one can touch it, and you have, full control over it.
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. So your monthly bill never goes up, if you do not increase your CPU and RAM resources and the data storage quota. We also do not charge the clients of our Web Hosting, VPS, and Cloud Server hosting services for IOPS, DNS zones, DNS queries, or for each 1 GB data transfer. Our infrastructure-as-a-service plans feature free technical support.
Review HostColor's Edge Infrastructure locations and choose one that is close to your target market
Does HC provide Wordpress Hosting?
Yes, we do provide WP Hosting in various forms. Hosted WordPress CMS is available with the standard 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 VMware-powered infrastructure with various scalability options as well as fault-tolerant storage. 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.
Where are your servers and IT infrastructure located?
HostColor's main facility is located 90 miles from Chicago, in South Bend, Indiana. We are also part of the Equinix IT ecosystem, which means we can provision enterprise computing capacity in 40 other premium IT facilities in the U.S, and worldwide.
Does HostColor (HC) offer fast Internet connectivity?
Yes! Our network - AS46873 - is among the most connected ones in the Midwestern U.S. We are proud to offer U.S. national peering and the shortest possible routes to 60 million Internet users in the Midwestern United States. What does all this mean to you? It means that your clients' websites and apps will enjoy the lowest possible round trip delay to any point in North America and fast connectivity worldwide.
How does HC Support work?
Our Network Operations are open 24/7. We have engineers available onsite and remote NOC support operators. The best way to receive support and fast resolution is to log in to your Account and open a Support Ticket. We usually respond fast to Support Tickets. You can also reach us at +1-574-307-8390 (101 for Technical Support) and on our LiveChat.
Do you do uptime monitoring of my website and applications?
Yes! However, remember that there is a different service framework for each IT service. For example, virtual & dedicated servers are very different from Shared plans. There are also different types of monitoring services. Some monitor the websites and hosting accounts' uptime per IP address or domain name. Others monitor application uptime. There are also Network Monitoring services, which help you to understand the network bandwidth on your Dedicated or collocated server(s). If you need any specific monitoring service, please open Support Ticket in your Account and tell us what you need.
Who are HostColor's customers?
We have been hosting websites and applications for small and medium-sized enterprises since 2000. Most of HostColor's customers (70%) are U.S.-based businesses. We also have many Canadian, UK, Australian, Irish, Spanish, South African, and Indian clients. We are friendly and open to customers from different nations and markets as long as they use HostColor's services for legitimate purposes while following the best industry practices.
Are my account, payment details & personal data secure?
Yes, as long as you use strong passwords that include special characters, you're safe. Your account at Accounts.HostColor.com is protected by an Extended Validation SSL certificate. Specific safety policies apply to the users' profiles. The administrative access to our database is also restricted and is not directly accessible over the Internet. Please also be advised that HostColor does not store your full financial details in our CRM. We want you to know that Host Color LLC doesn't share customers' data with 3rd parties of any kind.
Does HostColor do Dedicated Hosting?
Yes, we do. Host Color offers Dedicated Hosting services from various U.S. and international locations. We deliver Bare-Metal Servers from Ashburn, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; Bend, Oregon; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Los Angeles, California, Miami, Florida; New York, NY; Seattle, Washington. All Dedicated Server plans are connected to 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps physical ports 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.
Does HostColor offer Managed Hosting?
Yes, we do. We have Unmanaged and Managed service plans in each niche. Unlike most other hosting providers that offer Managed Services only with VPS and Dedicated Hosting plans, Host Color is pleased to offer small business owners a service named Managed Site. It allows our customers to save thousands of USD per year on IT management by outsourcing the technical administration and development of their accounts and websites to Host Color. As a part of the technical administration we do code debugging, design elements editing, manage mobile-friendly versions of our clients' sites, troubleshoot when necessary, improve the websites' security, and search engine ranking (through unique, high-quality organic SEO techniques), and deliver other valuable digital services.
What kind of Cloud or Web Hosting do I need?
If you don't know which web hosting service to choose, please go to Account Management Center and open a Sales Ticket. We will help you to make the right decision and will choose the most cost-effective web hosting solution for you. We want you to know that we never up-sell our customers! HC is an honest Cloud computing and Web Hosting service provider that drives business to its clients and partners by helping them to improve their IT infrastructures, & operations, and by saving their financial and human resources.
What does High Availability (HA) Hosting mean & do I need it?
HA is a software service that minimizes any service outage. It provides uniform, cost-effective failover protection against hardware and Operating System (OS) failures. It monitors the servers to detect failure on the underlying physical hosts or an OS failure inside the clients' instances. If an outage is detected, the HA functionality restarts the cloud instance on another physical host, part of the Host Color's compute cluster. Operations resume automatically. All services return online. There is no need to reboot the server manually. If you want to make sure that your websites, applications, and services will return online very fast in case of an outage, you should consider using HostColor's HA services.
Does Automated Fault Tolerance really offer 100% uptime?
Automated Fault Tolerance (AFT) is a service that eliminates the risk of a service outage. HostColor offers Automated Fault Tolerance as a paid add-on service to all Cloud services. Unlike the HA, which reduces any service outage, the AFT function eliminates it and ensures continuous availability for any websites, applications, and workloads. AFT creates a live shadow server (Failover Virtual Machine), which is synchronized and always up-to-date with the primary one. In case of a hardware failure or an OS outage, the AFT automatically starts the failover VM, ensuring zero downtime.
Do I need a Cloud Hosting?
Most Marketers and Sales Agents say "Yes, you do!". We work differently! We will discuss your project to understand what you want to achieve. HC team will outline any possible IT infrastructure and service scenarios for your business. Cloud services, especially the Hybrid ones are very efficient and cost-effective for businesses, as they help them create flexible IT frameworks and to organize operations more efficiently. On the other hand, the traditional IT infrastructure solutions are simple to understand and in many ways more affordable. The HC Cloud is among the best in the industry and is affordable. Unlike Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and other major cloud service providers, who do not provide technical support unless you pay for it, the HC Cloud includes technical support at no additional charge. Why don't you Ask your questions?.
Can I use Microsoft Office on HC Cloud Service environment?
Yes, you can host your own Microsoft Office on a Cloud Desktop or a Private dedicated IT environment. You can run any business productivity application on HC Cloud - Office 2016, iWork, Open Office, LibreOffice, etc. You can use our Cloud infrastructure to design and set up any Linux or Windows service framework.
What is the difference between Cloud & traditional Web Hosting?
The term "Cloud" describes a networking model of server infrastructure. In such systems, the data processing servers that deal with computation are physically separate from the Data Storage servers. Cloud computing infrastructures are hardware redundant. In case of a physical component failure, they continue to operate and guarantee operational continuity. For a web hosting service to be considered cloud hosting, it must be delivered from a Cloud Computing infrastructure, not from a stand-alone physical server. Most hosting providers use stand-alone physical servers, however.