Why use dedicated servers in Miami?
If you deliver content or application services to both Americas, a dedicated server in Miami is a perfect hosting infrastructure location.
From a network point of view, Miami offers low latency to any point in the Americas. This means that any queries that users make to your hosted content and applications are served with a lower round trip delay compared to many other U.S. major cloud infrastructure hubs, for example - Atlanta, Ashburn, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, NewYork, etc.
It is worth having a dedicated cloud infrastructure or bare metal servers in Miami, connected to one of the world's largest internet exchange hubs (for example the Network Access Point of the Americas) that allow thousands of networks to interconnect and improve their connectivity with Latin America, Caribbean and South America.
In which Miami data centers can I have a dedicated server?
HostColor.com most used data center facilities in the Miami metropolitan area to deliver Bare-Metal Dedicated Servers are:
- Digital Realty: 36 NE 2nd St, Miami, FL, 33132
- DataBank: 36 NE 2nd St, Miami, FL, 33132
- Lumen: 49 NW 5th Street, Miami, FL, 33128
- Cogent: 200 SE 1st Street, Miami, FL, 33131
- Equinix: 50 NE 9th Street, Miami, FL, 33132
- Equinix MI 2: 36 NE 2nd St, Miami, FL, 33132
HostColor also provides cloud infrastructure and bare-metal dedicated servers in other Miami data centers on an on-demand basis.
Which OS can I use on my Miami Dedicated Server?
If you have a dedicated server hosted in HostColor's other Miami data centers located at 36 NE 2nd St, 50 NE 9th Street, and 200 SE 1st Street, you can run any Linux or Windows operating system or use Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Linux Containers, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, Kubernetes, Docker, or any other virtualization platform.
If you have an Edge bare-metal server with a 5 Gbps - 30 Gbps bandwidth port and unlimited data transfer, hosted at 49 NW 5th Street, then there are "officially supported operating systems". They are Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Rocky Linux 9, Rocky Linux 8, Debian 12, RHEL (BYOL) 9.3, RHEL (BYOL) 9.0, RHEL (BYOL) 8.5, and RHEL (BYOL) 7.9. If you need to use virtual server environments on your Miami Edge server, you can install the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) virtualization technology in Ubuntu 20 (or Ubuntu 22) OS. VMM provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for creating and running virtual machines with Linux or Windows operating systems.
Can I have a dedicated cloud infrastructure in Miami?
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 or 10GE 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.
Servers hosted at 36 NE 2nd St, 50 NE 9th Street, or 200 SE 1st Street in Miami can use Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Linux Containers, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, Microsoft Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Docker, or other virtualization platforms.
Edge bare-metal servers hosted at 49 NW 5th Street in Miami can use the Ubuntu operating system with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) virtualization technology in Ubuntu 20 (or Ubuntu 22) OS.
Can I run virtual machines on my dedicated server in Miami?
Yes. If you have a dedicated server hosted in HostColor's Miami data centers located at 6 NE 2nd St, 50 NE 9th Street, and 200 SE 1st Street, you can run any Linux or Windows OS, or use Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Linux Containers, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, Kubernetes, Docker, or any other virtualization platform.
If you have a bare-metal server hosted in our Miami data center at 601 W 26th, you can use the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) virtualization technology in Ubuntu 20 (or Ubuntu 22) OS to create, run, and manage virtual machines with Linux or Windows operating systems.
Can I have a Cloud PC on HC servers in Miami?
If you need a Cloud PC in Miami with a Microsoft Windows operating system, we will provide you with a bare-metal server with Proxmox VE or a virtualization platform. It will allow you to have multiple Miami-based Cloud PCs (aka Remote Desktops), each running Microsoft Windows 10 or Windows 11. They can be accessed securely via Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
If you want to use a Linux-based Cloud PC, we recommend Peppermint OS. It is based on the Debian/Devuan repositories.
How does HC assign IP addresses on the Miami Server?
Clients with Miami dedicated servers hosted at 165 Halsey Street in Newark, 7 Teleport Drive in Staten Island, 60 Hudson Street, and 85 10th Avenue data centers are assigned 1 usable IP address and can add more IPs at any time.
Each Miami Dedicated server, hosted at 601 West 26th Street, 150 Varick Street, and 111 8th Avenue data centers is assigned its own IPv4 subnet that varies from /29 (8 IPs addresses) to /24 (256 IPs). The first three IP addresses are used for the networking service of your server as follows: 1st IP address is for the router default gateway; 2nd IP address is reserved for router1; 3rd IP is reserved for router2. The 4th IP address is the main IP of your Miami Edge Dedicated Server. Any additional IP addresses can be ordered from Accounts.HostColor.com and can be used for various services on your server.