A "SG Dedicated Server" is a physical or virtual computing instance housed in a data center in Singapore that is used by a single tenant.

Bare metal and virtual dedicated servers in Singapore can run any Linux operating system or Microsoft Windows operating system (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 "Singapore Dedicated Hosting Provider" is a company that provides dedicated hosting services from data centers located in Singapore. The provider may or may not be a Singapore based company. However, the data center(s) they use must be physically located in Singapore.

Many of the large Tier 3 and Tier 4 facilities owned by Singtel, Equinix, Digital Realty, IronMountain, Global Switch and other telecom facility providers.

If you deliver content or application services across Asia, a dedicated server in Singapore is the perfect location to host your infrastructure.

From a network perspective, Singapore offers low latency to any point in Southeast Asia, a region with a population of 674 million. This means that users' requests for your hosted content and applications will have lower round-trip delays compared to major Southeast Asian cloud infrastructure hubs such as Bangkok, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila.

Having dedicated cloud infrastructure or bare metal servers in Singapore, connected to one of Asia's largest Internet exchange hubs, allows thousands of networks to interconnect, improving connectivity throughout Asia, Australia, and Oceania.

Over the past two decades, Singapore has established itself as one of the best locations to host and deliver digital services, cloud-based applications, and content to Southeast 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 Singapore comes with a certain virtual or physical capacity of the Internet connection port, chosen by the server user. It varies from 250 Mbps to 100 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 Singapore 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 Singapore 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.

Several variables influence the performance of an SG 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 of a Singapore dedicated server means it is an edge server with latency between application users and the hosted apps of less than 5 milliseconds.

Bare Metal Servers and Dedicated Cloud Hosting infrastructure providers in general, and particularly those in Singapore, 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 Singapore data centers 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 Singapore-based server, etc.

As a provider of Singapore 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 dedicated servers in Singapore 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 the Edge servers, which are provided with SSH management access only and are not recoverable 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 Singapore 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 server is installed with Ubuntu OS, you can use UFW firewall. One of the UFW's benefits is that it offers a command-line interface and a graphical interface (Gufw) that are much easier to understand and use than directly interacting 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.

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 Singapore 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 Singapore dedicated servers, your applications run behind sophisticated DDoS protection firewalls, maximizing application availability. Our natural, enterprise-grade, DDoS-protected networks safeguard your Singapore 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 dedicated servers or cloud instances
• 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 bare-metal 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 29A International Business Park 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.

Yes, you can achieve this using virtualization technology such as Proxmox VE on your Singap dedicated server. 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 you configure resources (VMs, containers, etc.), the HA Manager monitors them for proper functionality and handles service failover to a redundant, Singapore-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.

However, Proxmox VE is not the only option. Many other technologies enable the use of two or more physical servers to provide business continuity for IT infrastructure and hosted applications. Microsoft Windows Hyper-V 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, 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.

Edge bare-metal servers hosted at our Singapore's 29A International Business Park data center can use the Ubuntu operating system with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) virtualization technology in Ubuntu 20 (or Ubuntu 22) OS..

All other HC dedicated servers in Singapore can run Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Linux Containers, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, Microsoft Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Docker, or other virtualization platforms.

Yes. You can have a single SG dedicated server or a cluster of servers to create a dedicated cloud infrastructure in Singapore that runs Docker and Kubernetes containers and hosts containerized applications on it.
HostColor's Singapore 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 a number of data centers in Singapore. If you need a SG dedicated server with AMD CPU, please either select a server from the configurations listed above, or go to our AMD Dedicated Servers section and select one.

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 Singapore. "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 NY 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" 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 Singapore come with "Free Infrastructure Support". HostColor never charges you for access to infrastructure technical support. Unlike the large hyperscaler 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 Singapore 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 Singapore 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.