A "Denver Dedicated Server" is a physical (bare metal) or virtual computing instance housed in a data center located in the Denver–Aurora–Centennial, CO metropolitan area) that is used by a single tenant.

Both Denver physical and virtual dedicated servers can run any Linux operating system (OS) distribution or Microsoft Windows-based OS.

By default, HostColor's Denver dedicated servers offer secure and private access to the computing OS environment and have on-demand, configurable firewalls. Standard security practices include using strong passwords, SSH keys, and two-factor authentication.

A "Denver Dedicated Hosting Provider" is a company that offers dedicated hosting services from data centers located in the Denver metropolitan area.

Many of the large Tier 3 and Tier 4 facilities owned by CoreSite, DataBank, Equinix, Flexential, Iron Mountain, H5 Data Centers, Prime Data Centers, Centersquare and many other IT facilities are located on the Denver metro area. They enable cloud infrastructure providers to deliver application services to the entire state of Colorado and the neighboring states with an average round-trip latency of 1 ms to 5 ms.

Several variables influence the performance of your Denver dedicated server. These include the physical location of the application users, the internet connection port's bandwidth rate, the computing resources necessary for the installed software applications to run properly, and how the apps are installed and configured.

An important trend in cloud computing, particularly in dedicated server infrastructure delivery, is "edge hosting." With edge hosting, dedicated servers are physically close to users of the configured software applications. From a networking perspective, a Denver dedicated server's performance is improved if it is an edge server with latency between application users and hosted apps of less than 5 milliseconds.

Bare Metal Servers and Dedicated Cloud Hosting infrastructure providers in general, and those in Denver in particular, offer the following levels of security with their dedicated hosting services:

1. Physical Environment Security
Physical environment security encompasses all physical aspects of Denver data center facilities used to house bare metal servers. This includes resilience against natural disasters, data center's physical design, and the organization of the server rooms and cabinets. It also includes power and internet network redundancy, as well as business continuity.

2. Network Security
Network security is an integral part of the data center's overall communications architecture. This includes redundant fiber connectivity routes, a wide selection of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and interconnection options.

3. Physical Server Security
This is also be referred to as "Bare Metal Server Secur". It refers to the specific hardware components and configurations of the server that increase its uptime. These include the number of power supplies (PSUs) used, the number and capacity of network interface cards (NICs), the number and specification of hard drives used (SATA, SAS, SSD, NVMe, etc.), the use of RAID controllers, and the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), also known as ILO or iDrac by server vendors, which provides remote network access to the Denver-hosted server.

As a Denver Bare Metal Server provider, HC automatically adheres to the highest industry standards regarding "Physical Environment Security" and "Network Security." Physical server security is a customizable feature selected by users (i.e., customers) of dedicated servers.
Most of our Denver dedicated servers include the following physical server security features by default:

• Redundant Power Supplies (PSUs)
• At least 2 x 1 Gbps physical Network Interface Cards (NICs)
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) capabilities, except for Edge Servers, which are accessible only through SSH management access and cannot be restored in the event of an operating system (OS) failure that renders the server inoperable.

The type of firewall depends on the operating system (OS) used on your Denver dedicated server. If your server uses a Linux OS, one of the most popular choices for a firewall is Iptables.

Iptables is a user-space utility in Linux used to configure and manage the Netfilter firewall. Netfilter is a packet filter and firewall included in the standard Linux kernel. It allows administrators to control network traffic by defining rules for filtering, translating, and altering packets.

Other popular software firewalls include Firewalld, IPFire, OPNsense, and pfSense, as well as underlying tools such as Iptables, Nftables, and UFW. IPFire, OPNsense, and pfSense are open-source firewall distributions.

Firewalld is a firewall management tool used by Red Hat Linux operating systems, including AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. It provides firewall features by acting as a front end for the Linux kernel's Netfilter framework. The current default backend for Firewalld is Nftables.

If your server is installed with Ubuntu operating system (OS), you can use the UFW firewall. One benefit of UFW is that it offers command-line and graphical (Gufw) interfaces that are easier to understand and use than interacting directly with IPtables.

The Windows Defender Firewall is the most popular firewall for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Other widely used software firewalls for the Windows OS include ZoneAlarm Free Firewall, GlassWire, TinyWall, and Comodo Firewall. Many other software firewalls are sold under commercial licenses on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis.

Yes, if by "unlimited bandwidth" you mean no restrictions on incoming and outgoing Internet traffic and no charges for data transfer used. Each dedicated server in Denver comes with a certain virtual or physical capacity of the Internet connection port, chosen by the server user. It varies from 250 Mbps to 30 Gbps. There are no limitations or restrictions on the used bandwidth used or data transfer quotas, up to the capacity of the Internet connection port, selected by our clients. Unless otherwise specified, all dedicated servers in Denver offered by HostColor feature "unlimited bandwidth up to the capacity of the Internet connection port". This is also called "unmetered bandwidth", which is actually a more appropriate term to use.
"Unmetered Bandwidth" or "dedicated server with unmetered bandwidth" means that the hosting provider does not measure the bandwidth used by the server. In Denver and most of its other Edge data center locations HostColor allows its customers to use the full capacity of the physical Internet bandwidth port of their dedicated servers.

Yes, all of our Denver data center-hosted dedicated servers offer low round-trip delay to the United States and Canada.
Our Bare Metal Edge Servers hosted in the data center at 910 15th St in Denver feature the following round trip delay (RTT) in milliseconds (ms):

• Salt Lake City, UT: 12 ms - 13 ms
• Kansas City, MO: 14 ms - 15 ms
• Dalls, TX: 16 ms - 17 ms
• Chicago, IL: 21 ms - 23 ms
• Los Angeles, CA: 25 ms - 27 ms
Kansas City
• Fremont, CA: 28 ms - 29 ms
• Seattle, WA: 23 ms - 24 ms
• Montreal, QC, Canada: 36 ms - 38 ms
• New York, NY: 38 ms - 39 ms
• Ashburn, Va: 39 ms - 40 ms
• Miami, FL: 49 ms - 50 ms
Amsterdam
• London, UK: 105 ms - 109 ms
• Paris, France: 108 ms - 111 ms
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands: 112 ms - 114 ms
• Frankfurt, Germany: 119 ms - 120 ms
• Vienna, Austria: 127 ms - 129 ms
• Madrid, Spain: 129 ms - 130 ms
• Tokyo, Japan: 130 ms - 132 ms
• Santiago, Chile: 149 ms - 151 ms
• Sao Paulo, Brazil: 150 ms - 152 ms
• Sydney, Australia: 200 ms - 202 ms
• Singapore: 266 ms - 269 ms

HC's Miami dedicated servers help you to deliver application services with low latency to any point in North and South America. They feature unlimited data transfer to the capacity of the bandwidth port, thus saving you thousands of dollars on internet traffic.

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 dedicated servers in Denver 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 Denver dedicated servers, your applications run behind sophisticated DDoS protection firewalls, maximizing application availability. Our natural, enterprise-grade, DDoS-protected network safeguards your Denver dedicated server from unexpected network downtime, preventing loss of business 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 that reaches your Denver dedicated 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 Denver unmetered dedicated servers and dedicated clouds
• No increased latency and long round-trip delays in application delivery in the event of a network attack
• All IPv4 and IPv6 settings are protected from DDoS attacks

Yes! Each Edge server hosted in the 1850 Pearl St data center 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 (Link Aggregation Control Protocol ) for individual link monitoring. Your Edge 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 feature 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 the Edge data centers 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.

You can use your preferred cloud computing virtualization technology to create and deploy a dedicated cloud infrastructure on a single bare metal server or a cluster of servers. If you want to use two dedicated bare metal servers, they can be directly interconnected using 1GE, 10GE, 20GE or larger NIC cards. If you need HostColor's help to create a cloud computing architecture, we can help you design one, deploy it, and manage it as needed.
Servers hosted at 1500 Champa St data center in the Denver can use Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Linux Containers, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, Microsoft Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Docker, or other virtualization platforms.
Edge bare-metal servers hosted at our Denver's 1850 N Pearl St data center can use the Ubuntu operating system with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) virtualization technology in Ubuntu 20 (or Ubuntu 22) OS.

Yes. You can create and host dedicated cloud infrastructure based on Docker and Kubernetes in Denver data centers and host containerized applications on it.

HostColor's Denver bare metal and cloud infrastructure allows organizations to deploy run, scale up, scale down, and quickly move Docker containers and the containerized applications from one virtual containerized environment to another without interruption. Docker containers are executable software packages that contain everything needed to run an application: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, and settings.

HC also enables enterprises to deploy a fully isolated, dedicated cloud infrastructure for hosting and orchestrating containerized applications, based on the Kubernetes open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services.

Yes, you can do this using virtualization technology such as Proxmox VE. Proxmox provides a software stack called the HA Manager that automatically detects failures and provides automatic failover.
The Proxmox VE HA Manager acts as an "automated" administrator. After resources (VMs, containers, etc.) are configured, the HA Manager monitors them for proper functionality and handles service failover to a redundant Denver server in case of failure or downtime. The HA manager can also handle normal user requests to start, stop, move, and migrate a service.
But it's not just Proxmox VE. There are many other technologies that enable the use of two or more physical servers to provide business continuity for IT infrastructure and hosted applications. Microsoft Windows Hyper V also allows server owners to create a high availability cluster.

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 do 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 in Denver. "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 server in Denver. 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" NY 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 will be charged at HostColor's standard managed service rates.

All HostColor dedicated servers in Denver come with "Free Infrastructure Support". HostColor never charges you for access to infrastructure technical support. Unlike the large hyperscalers like AWS, Azure and others, that charge their customers for access to technical support for their bare-metal or cloud infrastructure.
Our infrastructure technical support covers everything related to network interfaces and the core functionality of the physical components of your Denver bare-metal dedicated server such as CPU, RAM, and storage drives. With our free infrastructure support, you can save money and have access to the technical support you need for the core components and network functions of your NY server.
Please note that the "Free Infrastructure Support" does not include support for the operating system (OS), any custom configurations created and maintained by the customer, and the installed software applications.
In addition to the "Free Infrastructure Support" HostColor takes the dedicated hosting services it provides to a new level of reliability with its "Semi-Managed Dedicated Servers" support.

The best way to get quality support is to login to your account and Open a Support Ticket. New customers, please use contacts us here). This allows us to track quality and response time and ensure that customer requests are answered promptly.

Live chat and phone support are also available. The support team also communicates with Managed Services customers via instant messaging on Telegram. However, all of these support channels are in addition to support ticket communication.