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  "last_updated": "2026-08-20",
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    "url": "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/billings-montana-edge-server.html",
    "title": "Billings Montana Edge Server - Dedicated Hosting",
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    "primary_location": "Billings, MT",
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    "summary": "HostColor provides Linux-based, Semi-Managed Edge Bare Metal Dedicated Servers in Billings, Montana, delivered from the Lumen data center at 3011 2nd Ave N. Configurations range from 10 CPU cores / 128 GB RAM to 32 CPU cores / 512 GB RAM, with 5, 10, 20, or 30 Gbps bandwidth ports and unmetered data transfer. Prices run from 499 to 3199 USD per month on a 12-month term."
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    "name": "HostColor",
    "legal_name": "Host Color LLC",
    "short_name": "HC",
    "website": "https://www.hostcolor.com",
    "founded": "2000",
    "telephone": "+1-888-222-1495",
    "corporate_address": {
      "street": "244 Fifth Ave",
      "city": "New York",
      "state": "NY",
      "postal_code": "10001",
      "country": "United States"
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      "state": "MT",
      "country": "United States",
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      "regional_roundtrip_ms": "3-10"
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        "label": "Configure",
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    "standard_delivery": "up to 2 hours",
    "business_hours_delivery": "30 minutes to 1 hour",
    "after_hours_delivery": "2 hours to 9 hours, average 4 hours",
    "weekend_delivery": "1 hour to 24 hours, average 8 hours"
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    "cpu_ram_storage": "scaled by adding and clustering additional bare-metal servers",
    "bandwidth": "unlimited data transfer up to the selected port; upgradable to 20 Gbps or 30 Gbps depending on the system"
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  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "What is an Edge Server in Billings, Montana?",
      "answer": "A bare-metal or cloud server hosted in a Billings-area data center, physically close to application users, delivering round-trip delays typically under 5 milliseconds. It can run an OS directly on the hardware or act as an infrastructure node hosting virtual machines created with Virtual Machine Manager on Ubuntu."
    },
    {
      "question": "Does my Billings Edge Server feature unlimited data transfer?",
      "answer": "Yes. Inbound and outbound traffic is unmetered with no data transfer fees. Each server includes a chosen port capacity of 5, 10, 20, or 30 Gbps, and the port can be upgraded later depending on the available network interface."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is my Billings Edge Server safe from DDoS attacks?",
      "answer": "Yes. Servers run behind DDoS protection firewalls that mitigate attacks in real time and filter malicious traffic, at no extra cost, without added latency, covering both IPv4 and IPv6."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is my Billings Edge Server protected against network failure?",
      "answer": "Each server has four redundant 25 Gbps interfaces across two NIC cards in a LACP link aggregation group, connected to two switches with multiple 100 Gbps uplinks each, behind dual diverse routers with automatic failover."
    },
    {
      "question": "Which operating systems can I use?",
      "answer": "Ubuntu 20, 22, and 24; Rocky Linux 8 and 9; Debian 12; and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9, 8.5, and 9.3 under BYOL. Windows is available as a guest VM under Virtual Machine Manager on Ubuntu."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can I host Docker and Kubernetes containers in Billings?",
      "answer": "Yes. The Billings bare-metal and cloud infrastructure supports deploying, scaling, and migrating Docker containers, and fully isolated dedicated environments for orchestrating containerized workloads with Kubernetes."
    },
    {
      "question": "What does Semi-Managed mean?",
      "answer": "HostColor installs the requested OS or virtualization platform, records the server's base desired state, reinstalls the OS on request, and helps troubleshoot OS, networking, or software configuration issues, including up to 30 minutes of system administration per month. Additional time is billed at standard managed-service rates."
    },
    {
      "question": "Which data center hosts the Billings Edge Servers?",
      "answer": "The Lumen facility at 3011 2nd Ave N, Billings, Montana 59101."
    },
    {
      "question": "How long does provisioning take?",
      "answer": "Up to 2 hours. During business hours delivery averages 30 minutes to 1 hour; outside business hours it ranges from 2 to 9 hours; on weekends from 1 to 24 hours."
    },
    {
      "question": "How is the service billed and cancelled?",
      "answer": "Billing starts when login credentials are issued. Services default to month-to-month, or an annual contract can be prepaid for a lower monthly rate. Month-to-month services require 30 days' cancellation notice; early cancellation may be possible if requested at least 5 business days before the next billing cycle."
    }
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    "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/20gbps-dedicated-servers.html",
    "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/30gbps-dedicated-servers.html",
    "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/unmetered-servers.html",
    "https://www.hostcolor.com/about/data-center.html"
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