US Dedicated Servers & Worldwide

This depends on the edge data center location you request and the specific server configuration you require. For most of our datacenter locations, it takes up to 1 hour to install your dedicated server and send the login credentials as a welcome email in your account and to the email address registered in your account. More specifically:

• During business hours (9:00 am - 5:00 pm local time) 30 minutes - 2 hours server delivery time
• Outside the business hours (5:00 pm - 9:00 am local time): 2 hours - 9 hours server delivery time (with an average delivery time of 4 hours)
• Weekends: 1 hour - 24 hours server delivery time (with an average delivery time of 8 hours)

The lowest average delivery time applies to dedicated servers that use a standard Linux operating system (OS) such as Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, or virtualization platforms such as ProxMox or VMware, and the CPU, RAM, and storage disks listed in the server plan, as well as the default IPv4 and IPv4 IP address settings.

HostColor provides US Dedicated Servers hosted in data centers located in all major metropolitan markets such as Ashburn Virginia, Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and also in other 80 edge data center locations across the United States.

HostColor.com delivers dedicated hosting services from over 100 data centers worldwide. In the U.S. alone, we use 50+ edge data centers. Some of the most used US data centers by our clients are:

• CoreSite VA1: 12100 Sunrise Valley Dr, Reston, VA 20191, USA)
• Cyber WURX: 55 Marietta Street 16th Floor, Atlanta, GA, 30303
• 365 Data Centers: 427 S La Salle Street, Chicago, IL, 60605
• CoreSite CH2: 1432 S Clinton St, Chicago, IL 60607
• DataBank: 400 S Akard St, Dallas, TX 75202
• Flexential: 1500 Champa St, Denver, CO, 80202
• Digital Realty: 12061 North Fwy, Houston, TX 77090
• DataBank: 624 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90017
• CoreSite LA 2: 900 N Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
• DataBank: 36 NE 2nd St, Miami, FL, 33132
• Verizon: 250 S Marquette Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55401
• Telehouse: 7 Teleport Dr, Staten Island, NY 10311
• DataBank: 165 Halsey St, Newark, NJ, 07102
• Telehouse: 25 Broadway, New York, NY 10004
• Coresite NY2: 2 Emerson LnSecaucus, NJ 07094
• CoreSite SV7: 3020 Coronado, Santa Clara, CA, 95054
• All Equinix facilities

HostColor also has infrastructure capacity and provides dedicated servers virtually in every US state.

HostColor (HC) provides dedicated server and cloud hosting services from Tier 3 and Tier 4 data center facilities that meet the highest possible standards set by the IT telecommunications industry. The data centers we use have various certifications depending on the country in which they are located. In general, most of our U.S. data centers are ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and SSAE16 SOC I, SOC II, or SOC III certified. All are HIPAA compliant and PCI-DSS compliant. Our data centers in the European Union are also EN 50600 certified.

Yes, dedicated server hosting services are perfectly suited for remote work. There are various use case scenarios for both single users, for example, freelancers or organizations that can increase productivity and create a safe technology environment with a dedicated server hosting service.
High Availability of workflows: When some workflows are moved to a dedicated server hosted in any data center, this offloads the personal computer resources used. The business workloads are not interrupted upon any temporary suspension of the desktop or personal computers or outside the standard business hours.
Secure uniformed OS and software environment: When an organization uses a dedicated server to host most of its internal workflows, it applies a custom security and access policy. The users cannot modify the operating system (OS) and applications. The system administrator defines the security and privacy settings per the organization's policy. No malicious software could be installed by accident.
Secure digital communications: All incoming emails and files are filtered to apply the organization's custom security policy.
Improved effectiveness and reduced management time effort: When all the data and applications used by the organization are hosted in one location, the users save time on access, file management, and various other use cases.
Optimized data usage and management: The organization as a whole and its employees save a significant amount of data transfer on an internal document flow.
Data leak prevention: Using a uniform technology environment for the internal distribution of files and documents reduces the risk of accidental data leaks and other unwanted exposure of sensitive business information.
Data Loss Prevention: Unlike desktops and personal computers, servers offer multiple, customizable data storage scenarios and a redundant array of disks, which reduces the risk and prevents data loss. A dedicated server hosting service could use two separate dedicated servers that operate as a High Availability (HA) Cluster. Such a configuration de facto guarantees 100% retention of the data and 100% availability of the applications and business workflows.
Here are some of the many use cases for resource-demanding workloads to host on a dedicated server:
- Secure Business Email servers
- 2D and 3D design software
- Video, and audio rendering applications
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
- Customer Relationship Management applications
- Supply Chain Management systems
- Real-time data analytics platforms
- Inventory management software
- Financial Management and Accounting software
- Human Resources Management systems
- Event Management platform software
- Collaboration and communication systems for internal business communications
- Media streaming services
Overall, the use of dedicated server hosting, either in the form of a business collaboration server for multiple users or as a single user Remote Desktop, is a solid technology solution that improves overall security and productivity.

Most HC's Dedicated Servers can use any Linux OS distribution or a Windows OS. You can also install Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Linux Containers, or any other virtualization platform.
If you decide to use a Dedicated Server with Unrestricted Data Transfer, hosted in any of our Edge data centers, you can choose between our "officially supported operating systems". They are CentOS 7.9, Ubuntu 22.4, Ubuntu 20.4, Ubuntu 18.4, and RockyLinux 8.6. You can also use virtualization like Kernel-based Virtual Machine (Proxmox VE), VMware ESXi, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, Linux Containers, Kubernetes, and Docker.

You can use your preferred cloud computing virtualization technology to create and deploy a dedicated cloud infrastructure on a single dedicated physical server or cluster of servers. If you want to create a cluster of two dedicated servers, they can be directly interconnected using 1GE or 10GE NIC cards. If you need HostColor's help to create a cloud computing architecture, we can help you design, deploy and manage it as needed.

Clients with dedicated servers that are not hosted in our Edge Data centers are assigned 1 usable IP address and can add more IPs at any time.
Each Edge Dedicated server (Bare Metal server hosted in our Edge locations) is assigned its own IPv4 subnet that varies from /29 (8 IP addresses) to /24 (256 IPs). The first three IP addresses are used for the networking service of your server as follows: 1st IP address is for the router default gateway; 2nd IP address is reserved for router1; 3rd IP is reserved for router2. The 4th IP address is the main IP of your Edge Dedicated Server. Any additional IP addresses can be ordered from Accounts.HostColor.com and can be used for various services on your server.

Yes, you can. We allow our customers to use up to one /24 IPv4 block (256 IP addresses) on a dedicated physical server, for compliant use only. Please note that the sending of bulk, unsolicited mail of any kind is not allowed on any of HostColor's networks.

While most dedicated hosting providers offer 'Unmanaged' or 'Managed' hosting services, HostColor does 'Semi-Managed' and 'Managed' Dedicated Servers. 'Unmanaged' means that the client is solely responsible for the management of the bare-metal dedicated server they have. The provider's responsibility is to make sure that the server network connection works properly and in case of a hardware failure, to fix the failed components, or to replace the whole physical server.
'Managed' means that the provider is responsible for managing the network, the physical server, the installed operating system, and the software environment. The provider does operating system updates, software updates, and other management and configuration tasks on the physical server. In other words 'Unmanaged Dedicated Servers' does not feature server-side support and therefore the clients pay for the base infrastructure service. The 'Managed Dedicated Servers' feature full server-side infrastructure, OS, and software environment support and therefore are more expensive, as the provider's experts commit time and work hours to deliver technical and system administration.
HostColor fills the gap by offering 'Semi-Managed' Dedicated Servers. 'Semi-Managed' means that our administrators install your preferred OS on the physical server or your preferred virtualization platform to transform the physical server into a Cloud infrastructure. We create a custom technology environment per your requirements and keep on record a description with the 'base desired state' of your Bare Metal server. As a part of the 'Semi-Managed' support contract, HostColor reinstalls the server OS per the request and helps the client fix issues and troubleshoot in case of any operating system, networking, or software configuration issues. All 'Semi-Managed' dedicated servers feature up to 30 minutes per month of technical and system administration. Any time spent by HC experts on managing the server OS, software environments, or troubleshooting is charged per standard HostColor's managed service provider (MSP) rates.

Once payment is made, the billing month for your Semi-Managed Dedicated Server starts from the moment we send you the login credentials. By default, all dedicated hosting services are set to month-to-month contracts to provide maximum flexibility.
You can choose between month-to-month, 3-month, 6-month, and annual contracts. If you opt for an annual contract, you will receive a lower monthly service fee. However, you will need to prepay the full contract (all 12 service fees). Please note that your dedicated server on a month-to-month contract must be canceled properly and terminated before we stop billing you. All dedicated hosting services require a 30-day cancellation notice. In some cases, we may allow early cancellations. To qualify for an early cancellation, you must submit a cancellation request from your Account 5 business days before the beginning of the new billing cycle.

HostColor's core team has been managing servers and IT infrastructures since 2000. As an organization, Host Color LLC has over 20 years of experience in the hosting industry. To illustrate HostColor's experience, consider these two facts: HostColor started hosting content management systems three years before WordPress was launched, and had already been providing virtual server hosting services for seven years when Amazon launched its AWS with the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). HostColor's team members have extensive experience with major operating systems, virtualization technologies, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and hundreds of open-source applications at any stage of their development and business lifecycles. You can rely on HostColor to install and maintain a secure, productive, and cost-effective technology environment on your dedicated server.