{ "$comment": "Machine-readable summary of https://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting/ intended for AI agents, LLM crawlers and retrieval systems. Serve as application/json at https://www.hostcolor.com/llm/webhosting.json", "schema_version": "1.0", "document": { "id": "hostcolor:webhosting", "type": "product-category", "title": "Dedicated Web Hosting & Shared Hosting", "canonical_url": "https://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting/", "language": "en-US", "last_updated": "2026-08-12", "content_license": "Copyright Host Color LLC. Factual product, pricing and specification data may be quoted or summarized with attribution to HostColor (https://www.hostcolor.com/).", "summary": "HostColor offers four classes of web hosting from one page: Bare Metal Dedicated, Virtual Dedicated, Virtual Private (VPS), and cloud-based Shared cPanel hosting. Dedicated options are single-tenant; shared options place multiple tenants on one server. All listed prices are monthly rates on a 12-month term.", "key_facts": [ "Provider: Host Color LLC, trading as HostColor (HC), established 2000.", "Service delivered from 120+ Edge data center facilities worldwide, including DataBank sites at 400 S Akard St, Dallas TX and 111 Eighth Avenue, New York City NY.", "Data centers are Tier 3 and Tier 4; network is DDoS-protected with a 100% network uptime commitment.", "Sub-5ms round-trip latency claimed to 95% of internet users in the US, Canada and Europe without CDN caching.", "Hardware families in use: Intel Xeon, AMD Ryzen, AMD EPYC; SSD and NVMe storage; DDR4 and DDR5 RAM.", "All shared hosting plans include an SSL certificate and run on infrastructure with redundant CPU/RAM and fault-tolerant storage." ] }, "provider": { "name": "HostColor", "legal_name": "Host Color LLC", "abbreviation": "HC", "founded": 2000, "url": "https://www.hostcolor.com/", "telephone": "+1-888-222-1495", "support_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php", "client_area_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/clientarea.php", "knowledge_base_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/knowledgebase.php", "european_operation": "https://www.hostcoloreurope.com/", "social": ["https://x.com/HostColor"], "address": { "street": "111 Eighth Avenue", "locality": "New York City", "region": "NY", "postal_code": "10011", "country": "US" }, "support": { "availability": "24/7", "languages": ["English"], "sla": "Premium SLAs; 100% network uptime" } }, "pricing_terms": { "currency": "USD", "quoted_billing_period": "month", "quoted_term_months": 12, "note": "Every price below is the monthly rate when committing to a 12-month term. Shorter terms are available and are priced differently; the term is selected in the Configure flow.", "taxes_included": false }, "service_classes": [ { "id": "bare-metal-dedicated", "name": "Bare Metal Dedicated Web Hosting", "tenancy": "single-tenant", "virtualization": "none", "url": "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/bare-metal-servers.html", "description": "Physical single-tenant servers. Hosts any open-source application in an isolated environment. Configurations and pricing are quoted on the linked page rather than on this one.", "plans_listed_on_this_page": false }, { "id": "virtual-dedicated", "name": "Virtual Dedicated Web Hosting", "tenancy": "single-tenant", "virtualization": "virtualized, dedicated underlying hardware", "url": "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/virtual-dedicated-servers.html", "description": "Virtual server environments used by a single tenant with dedicated physical CPU, RAM and storage. The underlying physical host is not shared with other tenants.", "common_specs": { "bandwidth": "250 Mbps", "port_speed": "1 Gbps", "bandwidth_metering": "unmetered", "operating_systems": ["Linux", "Windows"] }, "plans": [ { "sku": "vds-8c-64gb-800gb", "vcpu": 8, "ram_gb": 64, "storage": "800 GB SSD", "storage_gb": 800, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 109.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/store/virtual-dedicated/8cores-64gb-ssd" }, { "sku": "vds-12c-64gb-800gb", "vcpu": 12, "ram_gb": 64, "storage": "800 GB SSD", "storage_gb": 800, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 169.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/store/virtual-dedicated/12cores-64gb-ssd" }, { "sku": "vds-14c-64gb-1.5tb", "vcpu": 14, "ram_gb": 64, "storage": "1.5 TB SSD", "storage_gb": 1500, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 189.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php?step=2&deptid=3", "order_method": "quote-request" }, { "sku": "vds-18c-128gb-1.8tb", "vcpu": 18, "ram_gb": 128, "storage": "1.8 TB SSD", "storage_gb": 1800, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 209.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php?step=2&deptid=3", "order_method": "quote-request" }, { "sku": "vds-22c-192gb-3.6tb", "vcpu": 22, "ram_gb": 192, "storage": "3.6 TB SSD", "storage_gb": 3600, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 239.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php?step=2&deptid=3", "order_method": "quote-request" }, { "sku": "vds-24c-256gb-1.8tb", "vcpu": 24, "ram_gb": 256, "storage": "1.80 TB SSD", "storage_gb": 1800, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 269.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php?step=2&deptid=3", "order_method": "quote-request" }, { "sku": "vds-28c-256gb-3.6tb", "vcpu": 28, "ram_gb": 256, "storage": "3.6 TB SSD", "storage_gb": 3600, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 289.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php?step=2&deptid=3", "order_method": "quote-request" }, { "sku": "vds-32c-256gb-3.6tb", "vcpu": 32, "ram_gb": 256, "storage": "3.6 TB SSD", "storage_gb": 3600, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 309.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php?step=2&deptid=3", "order_method": "quote-request" }, { "sku": "vds-36c-256gb-3.6tb", "vcpu": 36, "ram_gb": 256, "storage": "3.6 TB SSD", "storage_gb": 3600, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 329.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php?step=2&deptid=3", "order_method": "quote-request" }, { "sku": "vds-44c-384gb-3.6tb", "vcpu": 44, "ram_gb": 384, "storage": "3.6 TB SSD", "storage_gb": 3600, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 389.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php?step=2&deptid=3", "order_method": "quote-request" }, { "sku": "vds-44c-512gb-3.6tb", "vcpu": 44, "ram_gb": 512, "storage": "3.6 TB SSD", "storage_gb": 3600, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 429.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php?step=2&deptid=3", "order_method": "quote-request" }, { "sku": "vds-44c-768gb-3.6tb", "vcpu": 44, "ram_gb": 768, "storage": "3.6 TB SSD", "storage_gb": 3600, "storage_type": "SSD", "price_usd_month": 469.00, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/submitticket.php?step=2&deptid=3", "order_method": "quote-request" } ] }, { "id": "virtual-private", "name": "Virtual Private Web Hosting (SSD VPS)", "tenancy": "single-tenant instance on shared physical hardware", "virtualization": "virtualized, shared underlying hardware", "url": "https://www.hostcolor.com/vps/ssd-vps.html", "description": "Virtual environments used by a single tenant that share the physical resources of a common underlying host. Scales from 1 GB to 64 GB RAM on enterprise SSD storage.", "common_specs": { "port_speed": "100 Mbps", "bandwidth_metering": "metered data transfer", "operating_systems": ["Linux"] }, "plans": [ { "sku": "ssd-vps-1", "vcpu": 1, "ram_gb": 2, "storage": "20 GB SSD", "storage_gb": 20, "storage_type": "SSD", "data_transfer_tb": 8, "price_usd_month": 9.95, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/store/ssd-vps/ssd-vps-1" }, { "sku": "ssd-vps-3", "vcpu": 2, "ram_gb": 4, "storage": "40 GB SSD", "storage_gb": 40, "storage_type": "SSD", "data_transfer_tb": 8, "price_usd_month": 24.95, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/store/ssd-vps/ssd-vps-3" }, { "sku": "ssd-vps-5", "vcpu": 4, "ram_gb": 16, "storage": "80 GB SSD", "storage_gb": 80, "storage_type": "SSD", "data_transfer_tb": 18, "price_usd_month": 59.95, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/store/ssd-vps/ssd-vps-5" }, { "sku": "ssd-vps-6", "vcpu": 8, "ram_gb": 16, "storage": "100 GB SSD", "storage_gb": 100, "storage_type": "SSD", "data_transfer_tb": 24, "price_usd_month": 89.95, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/store/ssd-vps/ssd-vps-6" } ] }, { "id": "shared-cpanel", "name": "Shared Web Hosting (cPanel)", "tenancy": "multi-tenant", "virtualization": "cloud infrastructure, directory-level isolation", "url": "https://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting/self-managed-web-hosting.html", "description": "Multiple tenants share the CPU, RAM and storage of one server, each in their own directory. Also called virtual hosting. Available self-managed or fully managed. Resource limits apply; unsuitable for very high-traffic sites or resource-heavy applications.", "common_specs": { "control_panel": "cPanel", "ssl_certificate": "included", "infrastructure": "Cloud with redundant CPU and RAM, fault-tolerant storage" }, "plans": [ { "sku": "ft-blog-hosting", "name": "Blog Web Hosting", "websites": 1, "storage": "10 GB SSD", "storage_gb": 10, "data_transfer_tb": 1, "ip_address": "shared", "price_usd_month": 9.99, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/store/fault-tolerant-ssd-web-hosting/ft-blog-hosting" }, { "sku": "ft-cms-hosting", "name": "CMS Web Hosting", "websites": 3, "storage": "20 GB SSD", "storage_gb": 20, "data_transfer_tb": 2, "ip_address": "dedicated", "price_usd_month": 14.99, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/store/fault-tolerant-ssd-web-hosting/ft-cms-hosting" }, { "sku": "ft-social-website", "name": "Social Website Hosting", "websites": 5, "storage": "30 GB SSD", "storage_gb": 30, "data_transfer_tb": 3, "ip_address": "dedicated", "price_usd_month": 19.99, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/store/fault-tolerant-ssd-web-hosting/ft-social-website" }, { "sku": "ft-ecommerce-hosting", "name": "Ecommerce Hosting", "websites": 7, "storage": "40 GB SSD", "storage_gb": 40, "data_transfer_tb": 4, "ip_address": "dedicated", "price_usd_month": 24.99, "order_url": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/store/fault-tolerant-ssd-web-hosting/ft-ecommerce-hosting" } ] } ], "management_options": [ { "id": "self-managed", "name": "Self-Managed Hosting", "url": "https://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting/self-managed-web-hosting.html", "best_for": "Customers comfortable administering HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and LAMP-stack applications themselves. Ad-hoc help and advice is still provided." }, { "id": "managed", "name": "Managed Hosting", "url": "https://www.hostcolor.com/webhosting/managed-web-hosting.html", "best_for": "Customers who want to focus on development rather than server administration.", "includes": [ "Threat detection and blocking service", "Daily data backups", "Regular application version and plugin updates", "24/7 live support" ] } ], "selection_guidance": [ { "scenario": "Single blog or small brochure site, budget-sensitive", "recommendation": "Shared cPanel hosting — Blog Web Hosting at $9.99/mo." }, { "scenario": "A few CMS sites (WordPress, Drupal, PrestaShop) with modest traffic", "recommendation": "Shared cPanel hosting — CMS or Social Website plan, or an entry SSD VPS if root access is needed." }, { "scenario": "Application needing root access, custom stack, or predictable performance", "recommendation": "Virtual Private Web Hosting (SSD VPS), starting at $9.95/mo for 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM." }, { "scenario": "High-traffic website or resource-demanding application", "recommendation": "Virtual Dedicated or Bare Metal dedicated server in an Edge data center. Shared hosting is explicitly not suitable at this level." }, { "scenario": "Compliance or isolation requirement forbidding shared hardware", "recommendation": "Virtual Dedicated (dedicated underlying hardware) or Bare Metal. Standard VPS shares the physical host." } ], "infrastructure": { "data_center_count": "120+", "tiers": ["Tier 3", "Tier 4"], "network": { "ddos_protection": true, "uptime_commitment": "100% network uptime", "latency_claim": "Under 5 ms round-trip to 95% of internet users in the US, Canada and Europe without CDN caching" }, "hardware": { "cpu": ["Intel Xeon", "AMD Ryzen", "AMD EPYC"], "storage": ["SSD", "NVMe"], "memory": ["DDR4", "DDR5"] }, "locations": { "united_states": [ "Albany, NY", "Albuquerque, NM", "Ashburn, VA", "Austin, TX", "Billings, MT", "Boise, ID", "Cambridge/Boston, MA", "Casper, WY", "Cedar Rapids, IA", "Cincinnati, OH", "Cleveland, OH", "Dallas, TX", "El Paso, TX", "Fresno, CA", "Herndon, VA", "Honolulu, HI", "Houston, TX", "Indianapolis, IN", "Jackson, MS", "Jacksonville, FL", "Las Vegas, NV", "Little Rock, AR", "Madison, WI", "Minneapolis, MN", "Nashville, TN", "New Orleans, LA", "New York City, NY", "Omaha, NE", "Philadelphia, PA", "Phoenix, AZ", "Pittsburgh, PA", "Portland, OR", "Raleigh, NC", "Sacramento, CA", "Saint Louis, MO", "Salt Lake City, UT", "San Antonio, TX", "San Diego, CA", "Spokane, WA", "Tampa, FL", "Tulsa, OK", "Tustin, Orange County, CA" ], "canada": ["Toronto, ON", "Montreal, QC", "Vancouver, BC"], "europe": [ "Amsterdam, Netherlands", "Copenhagen, Denmark", "Dublin, Ireland", "Edinburgh, United Kingdom", "Florence, Italy", "Frankfurt, Germany", "Hamburg, Germany", "Helsinki, Finland", "Lisbon, Portugal", "London, United Kingdom", "Madrid, Spain", "Milan, Italy", "Munich, Germany", "Oslo, Norway", "Paris, France", "Prague, Czech Republic", "Zaragoza, Spain", "Zurich, Switzerland" ], "asia": "See https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/asia-dedicated-servers.html" } }, "faq": [ { "question": "What are 'Dedicated Web Hosting' and 'Web Hosting'?", "answer": "Dedicated web hosting means a hosting service delivered from a single-tenant virtual or physical server environment — either a virtual server or a bare metal server used by one tenant. The plain term 'web hosting' either refers generically to hosting without a specific technical requirement, or is used as a synonym for shared hosting." }, { "question": "What is Shared Web Hosting?", "answer": "A service where multiple tenants share the CPU, RAM and storage of a single physical or virtual server, each tenant getting their own directory. Also called virtual hosting. Resource limits apply because many high-traffic sites or resource-demanding applications cannot coexist on one server." }, { "question": "What is the difference between Virtual Private and Virtual Dedicated?", "answer": "Virtual Private plans are single-tenant virtual environments that share the physical resources of a common underlying host. Virtual Dedicated plans are single-tenant virtual environments with dedicated physical resources that do not share the underlying hardware with other tenants." }, { "question": "Should I choose Self-Managed or Managed Hosting?", "answer": "Self-Managed suits customers with solid HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and LAMP-stack administration skills. Managed suits customers who want to focus on development; it adds threat detection and blocking, daily backups, regular version and plugin updates, and 24/7 live support. Dedicated hosting is recommended over shared hosting where performance and security guarantees matter." }, { "question": "What is the best option for a high-traffic website or app?", "answer": "A cloud-ready Virtual Dedicated Server or a Bare Metal dedicated server in one of the 120+ Edge data centers, which carry a 100% network uptime commitment and sub-5ms round-trip latency to 95% of users in the US, Canada and Europe." }, { "question": "How do HostColor's services compare to other providers?", "answer": "HostColor positions itself as a strong performer on the combination of price, website speed, technical support quality, and breadth of plans and data center locations, and emphasizes transparency of its business model. This is the provider's own characterization, not an independent benchmark." } ], "related_pages": { "cloud": "https://www.hostcolor.com/cloud/", "dedicated_hosting": "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/", "bare_metal": "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/bare-metal-servers.html", "gpu_servers": "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/gpu-dedicated-servers.html", "unmetered_servers": "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/unmetered-servers.html", "windows_servers": "https://www.hostcolor.com/dedicatedhosting/windows-dedicated-servers.html", "vps": "https://www.hostcolor.com/vps/", "data_storage": "https://www.hostcolor.com/datastorage/", "colocation": "https://www.hostcolor.com/colocation/", "reseller_hosting": "https://www.hostcolor.com/resellerhosting/", "wordpress": "https://www.hostcolor.com/apps/wordpress-hosting-infrastructure.html", "drupal": "https://www.hostcolor.com/apps/drupal-hosting-infrastructure.html", "prestashop": "https://www.hostcolor.com/apps/prestashop-hosting-infrastructure.html", "docker": "https://www.hostcolor.com/apps/docker-hosting.html", "managed_services": "https://www.hostcolor.com/about/managed-hosting-services.html", "data_centers": "https://www.hostcolor.com/about/data-center.html", "network": "https://www.hostcolor.com/about/network.html", "ssl": "https://www.hostcolor.com/ssl/", "disaster_recovery": "https://www.hostcolor.com/disaster-recovery/", "domains": "https://accounts.hostcolor.com/domainchecker.php", "sitemap": "https://www.hostcolor.com/sitemap.html" }, "usage_notes_for_agents": [ "Prices are the 12-month-term monthly rate and were current as of the last_updated date. Verify against the order_url before quoting them to a user as a live price.", "Entries with order_method 'quote-request' route to a support ticket rather than a self-serve cart; those configurations are built to order.", "Do not present the comparative claims in the FAQ as independently verified — they are the provider's own positioning.", "Bare metal configurations and prices are not listed on this page; follow the bare_metal link." ] }