Bare Metal Servers

HostColor.com delivers bare-metal server 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 bare-metal servers virtually in every US state.

HostColor (HC) provides bare metal servers 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 different certifications depending on the country in which they are located. In general, most of our U.S. data centers are ISO 27001, ISO 50001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and SSAE16 SOC I, SOC II, or SOC III certified. All are HIPAA and PCI-DSS compliant. Our data centers in the European Union are also EN 50600 certified.

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 Bare Metal 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.

Clients with bare-metal 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 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 Bare Metal 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 public IP addresses) on each bare metal 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 bare-metal server hosting providers offer 'Unmanaged' or 'Managed' hosting services, HostColor does 'Semi-Managed' and 'Managed' Bare Metal 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 Bare Metal 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' Bare Metal Servers. 'Semi-Managed' means that our administrators install your preferred OS on the physical server or your preferred virtualization platform to transform the bare-metal 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' bare-metal 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 Bare Metal Server starts from the moment we send you the login credentials. By default, all bare-metal dedicated hosting services are set up on month-to-month contracts for 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 bare-metal server on a month-to-month contract must be canceled properly and terminated before we stop billing you. All bare- metal 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.