A "VPS provider" or "VPS hosting provider" is a company that offers Virtual Private Servers (VPS) that are hosted on standalone physical servers. There are several virtualization technologies used to create VPs. HostColor uses Proxmox VE enterprise virtualization management suite and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology to provide standardized, pre-configured and customizable VPS.

The providers of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) offer the following levels of security with their VPS hosting services:
1. Physical Environment Security
Physical environment security refers to all physical aspects of the data center facilities used to house the VPS. 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 underlying physical server used to host VPS 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 New York-based server, etc.
As a VPS provider, HC automatically covers the highest possible industry standards regarding "Physical Environment Security" and "Network Security". Physical Server Security is a customizable element of the VPS hosting service that is selected by the user of the virtual server (i.e. the customer).
Most of our physical servers used for delivery of VPS hosting services 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 Bare Metal servers, which are shipped with SSH management access only and are not recoverable in the event of an operating system (OS) failure that renders the server inoperable

We use NVMe/SAS Solid State Drives (SSD) Micron 5100 MAX, Micron 5100 PRO, Intel S3610, Intel S4600, Intel S3510, Intel S3710, Samsung PM863a, Samsung SM863, Samsung PM883, Samsung PM963, Samsung PM1733, Samsung PM1735 NVMe, Intel P4510 NVMe, NVMe Micron 7300 PRO and many other types of SSD and NMVe storage disks.

Yes, if by "unlimited bandwidth" you mean no restrictions on incoming and outgoing Internet traffic and no charges for data transfer used. Each VPS comes with a certain virtual or physical capacity of the Internet connection port. It varies from 100 Mbps to 30 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 VPS offered by HostColor feature "metered data transfer".
"Unmetered Bandwidth VPS" or "VPS with unmetered bandwidth" means that the hosting provider does not measure the bandwidth used by the VPS.

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 VPS 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 SSD-powered virtual private servers, your applications run behind sophisticated DDoS protection firewalls, maximizing application availability. Our natural, enterprise-grade, DDoS-protected networks safeguard your VPS 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 virtual server
• Native protection against network attacks of any size
• No additional fees or charges for DoS and DDoS protected VPS and infrastructure
• No fees for bot-generated and malicious traffic on all unmetered VPS
• 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

Your VPS is protected agains failure of the underlying physical infrastructure (bare metal server)! In our Edge locations used for delivery of high performance VPS, each physical server 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. The physical server that hosts your VPS 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 create install Docker and Kubernetes on your VPS and host containerized applications on it.
HostColor's allows you to deploy 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.

Yes, we offer AMD-powered VPS in a number of data centers. We have both AMD Ryzen and AMD Epyc processor based servers used for providing VPS hosting services.

Yes, we 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 VPS in case of failure or downtime. The HA manager can also handle normal user requests to start, stop, move, and migrate a service.

While most dedicated hosting providers offer "Unmanaged" or "Managed" VPS, HostColor does "Semi-Managed" and "Managed" Virtual Private Servers.
"Unmanaged" means that the client is solely responsible for the management of the VPS 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 VPS, the installed operating system, and the software environment. The provider does operating system updates, software updates, and other management and configuration tasks on the VPS. In other words unmanaged VPS do not feature server-side support and therefore the clients pay for the base infrastructure service. The 'Managed VPS' 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" VPS. "Semi-Managed" means that our administrators install your preferred OS on the VPS to transform the virtual 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 VPS. As a part of the "Semi-Managed" support contract, HostColor reinstalls the VPS 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" VPS 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 VPS come with "Free Infrastructure Support". HostColor never charges you for access to infrastructure technical support. Unlike the large hyperscalers like AWS, Azure and others, that charge their customers for access to technical support for their cloud infrastructure.
Our infrastructure technical support covers everything related to network interfaces and the core functionality of the physical components of your virtual 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 VPS.
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 VPS hosting services it provides to a new level of reliability with its "Semi-Managed VPS" 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.