In which St. Louis data centers can I have a dedicated server?
HostColor.com most used data center facilities in St. Louis to deliver Bare-Metal Dedicated Servers are:
- Lumen: 1015 Locust, St. Louis, MO 63101
- Netrality Data Centers: 210 N Tucker Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63101
- The Globe building: 710 N Tucker Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63101
Which OS can I use on my St. Louis Dedicated Server?
There are "officially supported operating systems" on the Edge Dedicated servers with unrestricted data transfer hosted in our St. Louis Edge data center located at 1015 Locust. 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. You can also use virtualization like Kernel-based Virtual Machine (Proxmox VE), VMware ESXi, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, Linux Containers, Kubernetes, and Docker.
In the data center located at 210 N Tucker Blvd, there is a wide choice of Linux, Windows OS, and virtualization technologies.
How does HC assign IP addresses on the Edge Servers?
Each Edge Server hosted in our data center located at St. Louis 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 Edge Dedicated Server. Any additional IP addresses can be ordered from Accounts.HostColor.com and can be used for various services on your server.
Customers with dedicated servers hosted in the data center located at 210 N Tucker Blvd are assigned 1 usable IP address and can add more IPs at any time.
What does a Semi-Managed Dedicated Server mean?
While most dedicated hosting companies offer 'Unmanaged' or 'Managed' hosting services, HostColor provides "Semi-Managed" and "Managed" Dedicated Servers. 'Unmanaged' means that the client is solely responsible for the management of the bare-metal dedicated server 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 physical server, the installed operating system, and the software environment. The provider performs operating system updates, software updates, and other management and configuration tasks on the physical server. In other words 'Unmanaged Dedicated Servers' do not come with server-side support as the customers pay for a basic infrastructure service. The 'Managed Dedicated Servers' feature full support of the server-side infrastructure, OS, and software environment and are therefore more expensive, as the provider's experts spend time and work hours to provide technical and system administration.
HostColor fills the gap by offering "Semi-Managed" Dedicated Servers in St. Louis. "Semi-Managed" means that our administrators install your preferred OS on the physical server or your preferred virtualization platform to transform the physical 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 Dallas server. As a part of the "Semi-Managed" support contract, HostColor reinstalls the server 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' Dallas dedicated servers 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 is charged per standard HostColor's managed service provider (MSP) rates.
