Your Albany Edge Dedicated Server is a Bare-Metal or a Cloud Server that:
a) is hosted in a data center in Albany, NY physically close to your application users and customers
b) provides the lowest possible round-trip delay for application delivery (typically less than 5 milliseconds).
Your Albany, NY server environment can be used as:
a) Edge dedicated server with OS installed directly on the physical (bare-metal) server; or
b) As an infrastructure node that hosts virtual servers created with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) virtualization technology in Ubuntu 20 (or Ubuntu 22). VMM allows you to create and use Virtual Machines (VMs) that run a Linux distribution or Windows OS.

Yes! Each Albany Edge Dedicated Server has four (4x) 25-gigabit network interfaces configured for redundancy on 2 separate NIC cards. All four interfaces are placed into a single link access group (LAG) and utilize LACP for individual link monitoring. Your Albany Dedicated Server is connected to two network switches with two (2x) 25-gigabit connection links to the first switch and two (2x) 25-gigabit to the second switch. Each network switch has multiple 100-gigabit fiber connections to the data center's network architecture that features failover protection. The overall networking architecture sustains full data transfer capacity with the failure of any single networking appliance or link. The data transfer from our Boise Idaho Edge data center to either the public Internet or the MPLS IP VPN network is secured by two diverse routers for each network. The routers are connected to a pair of network switches. The data transfer can be forwarded through both routers and will switch over automatically upon failure of any networking device.

After the payment is made, the billing month starts from the moment we send you the login credentials of your Semi-managed Albany Edge Server. You can choose between a month-to-month contract and an annual contract. All Albany Edge Dedicated Hosting services are set to month-to-month contracts by default, something that gives you flexibility. If you want to sign an annual contract, we will give you a lower monthly service fee, however, you will be required to prepay the full contract (all 12 service fees). Please note that a Albany Server on a month-to-month contract must be properly canceled and terminated before we stop billing you. Like other dedicated hosting services, the Edge ones require a 30-day cancelation notice. However, on some occasions, we allow early cancelations. To qualify for an early cancelation, you must have submitted a cancelation request from your Account 5 business days before the beginning of the new billing cycle.

All HostColor Edge dedicated servers in Albany are "Semi-Managed" and feature free infrastructure support. HostColor never charges for technical support on unmanaged infrastructure. Our Semi-Managed technical support covers the network interfaces and the core functionality of your edge dedicated server but does not cover maintenance or troubleshooting of your custom configurations and installed software. Please have a full backup of your data, application environment, and all custom configurations. If your operating system fails, we cannot troubleshoot it. We will provision a new edge bare-metal server for you.