A "Hong Kong Dedicated Server" is a physical (bare metal) or virtual computing instance housed in a data center located in the Hong Kong Special administrative region that is used by a single tenant.

Both Hong Kong physical and virtual dedicated servers should be able to run any Linux operating system (OS) distribution or Microsoft Windows-based OS. Dedicated servers should offer secure and private access to the computing OS environment and have on-demand configured firewalls by default. Standard security practices include using strong passwords, SSH keys, and two-factor authentication.

A "Hong Kong Dedicated Hosting Provider" is a company that offers dedicated hosting services from data centers located in Hong Kong Special administrative region.

Many large Tier 3 and Tier 4 facilities are owned by SUNeVision iAdvantage MEGA-i, Equinix, Digital Realty, NTT Data Inc., iTech, HKColo, CDG, ISL, KKDI, Global Switch, DayOn, AirTrunk, and other data center providers are located in Hong Kong. They enable cloud infrastructure providers to deliver application services to the entire These providers enable cloud infrastructure companies to deliver application services to the entire Hong Kong metropolitan area with an average round-trip latency of 1 to 3 milliseconds.

If you deliver content or application services to Northeast Asia, a dedicated server in Hong Kong is the perfect location for hosting infrastructure.

From a network perspective, Hong Kong offers low latency to Mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. This means that users' requests for your hosted content and applications will experience lower round-trip delays compared to many other major Asian cloud infrastructure hubs.

Hong Kong has established itself as one of the best locations to host and deliver digital services, cloud-based applications, and content throughout Northeast Asia.

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 Hong Kong comes with a certain virtual or physical capacity of the Internet connection port, chosen by the server user. It varies from 100 Mbps to 10 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 stated, all Hong Kong dedicated hosting services 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 accurate term.
"Unmetered Bandwidth" or "dedicated server with unmetered bandwidth" means that the hosting provider does not measure the bandwidth used by the server. In Hong Kong 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.

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 Hong Kong 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 dedicated servers in HK, your applications run behind sophisticated DDoS protection firewalls, maximizing application availability. Our natural, enterprise-grade, DDoS-protected networks safeguard your Dallas 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 Hong Kong 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 dedicated servers and dedicated clouds in Hong Kong
• 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

Several variables influence the performance of a Hong Kong dedicated server. These include the physical location of the application users, the bandwidth rate of the internet connection port, 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, improved performance for a Hong Kong dedicated server means it is an edge server with latency of less than 5 milliseconds between application users and the hosted apps.

Bare Metal Servers and Dedicated Cloud Hosting infrastructure providers in Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong data center facilities used to house bare metal servers. This includes resilience against natural disasters, the data center's physical design, and how the server rooms and cabinets are organized. It also includes power redundancy, internet network redundancy, and overall business continuity.

2. Network Security
Network security is part of the data center's overall communications architecture. It includes redundant fiber connectivity routes and a wide selection 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), the number and capacity of network interface cards (NICs), the type of hard drives used (SATA, SAS, SSD, NVMe, etc.), RAID controllers, and the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)—also known as ILO or iDrac—which provides remote network access to Hong Kong-based servers. IPMI provides remote network access to Hong Kong-based servers.

As a provider of Hong Kong Bare Metal Servers, HC automatically adheres to the highest industry standards regarding physical environment security and network security. Physical server security is a customizable element of dedicated hosting servers selected by users (i.e., customers).
Most of our dedicated servers in Hong Kong include the following "Physical Server Security" features by default:

• Redundant Power Supplies (PSUs)
• At least two 1 Gbps physical Network Interface Cards (NICs)
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) and IPMI capabilities, except for the HostColor's Linux-based Edge servers. These Edge servers only provide SSH management access and cannot be recovered in the event of an operating system (OS) failure that renders the server inoperable.

The type of firewall depends on the operating system used on your Hong Kong dedicated server. If your server uses a Linux operating system, one of the most popular firewall choices is Iptables.

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

Other popular software firewall choices 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 Hong Kong dedicated server is installed with the 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 also sold under commercial licenses on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis.

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 Hong Kong-based 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.

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 2-2-43 Higashishinagawa, Shinagawa City data center and all Equinix data centers in Hong Kong 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 2 Chome-3-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda 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 Hong Kong data centers and host containerized applications on it.

HostColor's Hong Kong-based 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.

While most dedicated hosting providers offer "Unmanaged" or "Managed" hosting services, HostColor does "Semi-Managed" and "Managed" Dedicated Servers in Hong Kong.

"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. "Semi-Managed" means that our administrators install your preferred OS on the physical server in Hong Kong 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 HK-hosted 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" Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong come with "Free Infrastructure Support". HostColor never charges you for access to infrastructure technical support. Unlike the large hyperscale clouds 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 Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong 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.