A "Charlotte Dedicated Hosting Provider" is a company that offers dedicated hosting services from data centers located in Charlotte and Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, metropolitan area.
Many of the large Tier 3 and Tier 4 facilities owned by Digital Realty, Flexential, Segra, QTS, TierPoint, Lumen and many other IT facilities are located in the Charlotte metropolitan area. They enable cloud infrastructure providers to deliver application services to the entire North Carolina metro area with an average round-trip latency of 1 ms to 3 ms.

The Edge Server (including your Charlotte Dedicated Server) is a "Bare-Metal or a Cloud Server that: a) is hosted in a data center physically located in the region or metropolitan market where its users are located; b) provides the lowest possible round-trip delay for application delivery (typically less than 5 milliseconds).
In HC's Edge Server section, we offer an Edge Bare Metal server. To get an Edge Cloud Server, go to our Cloud section.

Bare Metal Servers and Dedicated Cloud Hosting infrastructure providers in general, and those in Charlotte in particular, offer the following levels of security with their dedicated hosting services:
1. Physical Environment Security
Physical environment security refers to all physical aspects of the Charlotte data center facilities used to house bare metal servers. This includes the resilience against natural disasters, the physical design of the data center and the way the server rooms and cabinets are organized, as well as power redundancy, Internet network redundancy, and overall business continuity.
2. Network Security
Network security is part of the overall data center communications architecture. It includes the redundancy of fiber connectivity routes and the wide choice of ISPs and interconnection options.
3. Physical Server Security
This can also be referred to as "Bare Metal Server Security". 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, NMVe, etc.), the use of RAID controllers, the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI, also known as ILO and iDrac by server vendors) for remote network access to the New York-based server, etc.
As a provider of Charlotte Bare Metal Servers, HC automatically covers the highest possible industry standards regarding "Physical Environment Security" and "Network Security". Physical Server Security is a customizable element of the dedicated hosting server that is selected by the user of the physical server (i.e. the customer).
Most of our Charlotte dedicated servers include the following "Physical Server Security" by default:

• Redundant Power Supplies (PSUs)
• At least 2 x 1 Gbps physical Network Interface Cards (NICs)
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) and 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.

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 Charlotte 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 there is "Data Transfer" quota specified in the server offering, all dedicated servers in Charlotte 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 Charlotte 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 edge dedicated servers.

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 Charlotte 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 Charlotte dedicated servers, your applications run behind sophisticated DDoS protection firewalls, maximizing application availability. Our natural, enterprise-grade, DDoS-protected networks safeguard your dedicated server in North Carolina 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 Charlotte 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 unmetered Charlotte 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 dedicated server hosted in our Charlotte Edge 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 for individual link monitoring. Your Edge Dedicated Server in Charlotte 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 failover network architecture. The entire network architecture maintains full data transfer capacity in the event of a single network device or link failure. Data transfer from our Charlotte data centers to either the public Internet or the MPLS IP VPN network is secured by two independent routers for each network. The routers are connected to a pair of network switches. Traffic can be routed through either router and will automatically switch over if either network device fails.

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 or 10GE 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 3101 International Airport Dr in Charlotte can use Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Linux Containers, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, Microsoft Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Docker, or other virtualization platforms.
Edge bare-metal servers hosted in the 4021 Rose Lake Drive data center can use the Ubuntu operating system with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) virtualization technology in Ubuntu operating system (Ubuntu 20, 22 or 24) to create cloud servers.

Yes. You can create and host dedicated cloud infrastructure based on Docker and Kubernetes in Charlotte data centers and host containerized applications on it.
HostColor's Charlotte 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, we offer AMD-powered dedicated servers in our data center located at 3101 International Airport Dr in Charlotte. If you need a server with AMD CPUs in Charlotte, please either select a server from the configurations listed above, or go to our AMD Dedicated Servers section and select one.

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 Charlotte 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 Charlotte. "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 Charlotte 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" Charlotte 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 Charlotte 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 Charlotte 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 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.