HostColor: Bare Metal and Cloud IaaS from over 80 US data centers

HostColor.com (HC) is a globally recognized edge hosting services and managed service provider (MSP). The company offers Edge Cloud and Edge Bare Metal hosting services with network speeds ranging from 1 Gbps to 300 Gbps.

HostColor's dedicated cloud hosting platform  allows organizations to significantly reduce their cloud computing expenditures compared to large hyperscale clouds. In contrast to the hyperscalers, computing providers who impose fees on clients who transfer data from their cloud accounts, HostColor's customizable dedicated bare metal and cloud infrastructure features up to 300 Gbps internet connections and unlimited data transfer up to the full capacity of the bandwidth ports. Users of HC's cloud infrastructure services are not charged for any inbound or outbound internet traffic.

Organizations that utilize the provider's global edge hosting infrastructure delivery platform have the flexibility to run any Linux OS distribution or Windows OS on bare-metal servers or create containerized computing infrastructures using Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Linux Containers, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, Linux Containers, and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technologies. Additionally, Kubernetes and Docker platforms for hosting containerized applications are also available for use on the HC platform.

The HCs most popular 1Gbps unmetered dedicated server offerings offerings are available in 80 different US Edge data centers. This Edge cloud-ready server hosting service is highly valued by small and medium-sized businesses for five key reasons.

1. This allows them to create a dedicated private IT infrastructure, also known as a hosted private cloud, to host their organization's internal technology workloads. This infrastructure is not accessible via the public internet. It is securely hosted behind a custom-built firewall, created and accessed according to the organization's unique security policies.

2. The HC's 1 Gbps unmetered servers are suitable for delivering content and applications to the public. It can connect to any of the cloud infrastructure instances hosted in major hyperscale clouds, and can be used as a business continuity technology solution or as primary technology infrastructure.

3. HostColor's unmetered server infrastructure allows customers to enjoy unlimited data transfer up to the full physical capacity of the Internet connection ports, resulting in significant cost savings every month.

4. The hosted servers and cloud infrastructure offered by HostColor are strategically located at the edge, in close proximity to the individuals and organizations utilizing the applications and hosted data. This enables immediate data processing and content delivery with latencies ranging from 1ms to 5ms for selected metropolitan areas or within neighboring countries.

5. The unmetered Edge bare metal and Edge cloud infrastructure offered by HostColor provides organizations with a solution to avoid the "cloud lock-in" issue. Despite the fact that the major hyperscale clouds build their services on top of open-source code and use standard commodity hardware, their infrastructure solutions are delivered under a complex model that imposes both custom graphical user interfaces and high costs for outgoing data transfer. Therefore, although any infrastructure hosted on any of the major hyperscale clouds appears portable, in reality, organizations are forced to pay enormous fees for data transferred out of the cloud provider's data centers.

HostColor offers a simple and effective solution to the cloud lock-in problem. HC does not charge its clients egress fees for used data transfer, allowing clients to apply their own policies to moving data in and out of their own infrastructure.

In addition, companies like HostColor offer two other significant advantages to organizations: "Free Infrastructure Technical Support" and "Semi-Managed Edge Infrastructure."

Free Infrastructure Technical Support

In accordance with the Service Level Agreement (SLA), all HostColor.com bare metal and cloud server environments include "Free Infrastructure Technical Support". This signifies that the company does not impose a fee for access to technical support pertaining to the fundamental functionality of the bare metal or cloud infrastructure it furnishes to its clientele. The free infrastructure technical support service covers core functionality related to network interfaces and the physical components of bare metal servers, including the CPU, RAM, and storage drives.

"Free Infrastructure Technical Support" also includes consultation on various infrastructure service use case scenarios. However, it does not include maintenance and support for the operating system (OS), customer custom configurations, and installed software applications. These are covered by the next level of SLA-defined technical support, called "Semi-Managed Dedicated Servers." This is a native technical support agreement on the company's edge server hosting infrastructure platform.

Semi-Managed Edge Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

In accordance with the "Semi-Managed Dedicated Server" included in HostColor's SLA, the company's administrators are responsible for installing and configuring server instances to the client's custom configurations for Linux infrastructure environments. Additionally, HC Support is available to reinstate the server's operating system (OS) upon request, configure and manage network settings, create and maintain custom virtual private networks, or troubleshoot any server-side issues related to OS, network, or software configuration.

HostColor Edge Data Center Locations

In September 2024, HostColor revealed that it has exceeded 100 operational locations for the delivery of edge hosting services.

HostColor.com offers a range of high performance Edge Bare Metal and Edge Cloud solutions with 1Gbps to 300Gbps Internet connectivity. Infrastructure environments with 100 Gbps, 200 Gbps, and 300 Gbps bandwidth quotas are available on HC's dedicated servers in Miami, Atlanta, Denver, and New York. The provider offers unlimited data transfer up to the physical capacity of the Internet connection port in the following U.S. metropolitan markets: Albuquerque, Ashburn, Herndon, Atlanta, Amarillo, Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, San Antonio in Texas, Portland, Billings, Birmingham, Boise, Boston, Casper WY Cedar Rapids IO, Charlotte and Raleigh in North Carolina, Chicago, Cincinnati and Cleveland in Ohio, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Jackson, MS; Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa in Florida, Kansas City and St. Louis in Missouri; Las Vegas, Little Rock AR, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange County Sacramento, Santa Clara, and San Diego in California, Madison, WI, Minneapolis; Nashville, Newark, Secaucus, North Bergen, Carteret, and Piscataway in New Jersey; New Orleans, Albany and New York City in New York; Omaha NE, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Tulsa.

About

Since 2000, HostColor.com (HC) has been a global provider of Semi-Managed Edge Bare-Metal and Edge Cloud infrastructure hosting services. HC operates virtual data centers and provides dedicated hosting services from over 100 data centers worldwide. Its subsidiary, HostColorEurope.com, provides cloud infrastructure and dedicated hosting services in 19 European countries.