Host Color
| Type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Founded | Wilmington, Delaware, 2003[1] |
| Headquarters | New York, USA |
| Key people | Alex Avramov, Stoyan Marinov, |
| Industry | Web hosting service, Virtual private server, Dedicated hosting service |
| Products | Web Hosting, VPS, Dedicated Hosting |
| Website | http://www.hostcolor.com |
Host Color (HC) is a Wilmington, New Castle County incorporated web hosting provider. The company has operated in European Union as HostColor.com until 2003 when it incorporated in Delaware. Host Color's was founded by Dimitar Avramov, one of today's popular authors and bloggers of web hosting industry. The company's U.S. facilities were collocated in RackShack, a company founded by Robert Marsh, that change its name to EV1SErvers in 2003, and then was transformed into today's The Planet. Since 2004 Host Color has created its own private data center in Colostore's data center located in South Bend, Indiana. The company operates its proprietary web hosting platform based on NextColor web hosting automation control panel and CentOS community enterprise operating system.
Host Color shared, virtual private server and dedicated hosting services are based on Apache web server running on the centos free and open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Company's customers manage their accounts and deal with company's support through a CRM called "PZone" and in NextColor control panel. The "PZone" features integrated products and service manager, billing and a support ticket system. Host Color is a cPanel Partner NOC and uses cPanel hosting automation pane, to power its customers' websites. It maintains a corporate blog where the company publishes news an information about its internal affairs as well as various news about product and service developments.
The hosting company provides WordPress, b2Evolution, TextPattern, MODx, Joomla, Drupal, MediaWiki, and other open source software applications as pre-installed tools in PowerTools and Fantastico auto-installer software libraries, part of NextColor and cPanel web hosting control panels. It also customizes its Shared Hosting plans for specific Linux based software environments.
Virtual private servers
In 2007, the company began providing VPS Hosting services based on Parallel's OS virtualization platform Virtuozzo Containers. The web host combines Parallel's Virtuozzo Containers OS virtualization technology with Plesk and cPanel control panels as well as with its proprietary hosting automation system and its branded customer relationship software. It also provides managed service with Virtual Private Servers.
Dedicated hosting
In the beginning of 2007, the company has announced a new Dedicated Hosting brand named HC Servers. It was aimed to offer pre-configured Linux dedicated servers as well as on-demand fully-managed hosting services. [2]. Host Color provides on-demand dedicated and managed hosting from three different data centers - one in South Bend, Indiana and other two in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Sofia, Bulgaria.
Community activities
Host Color is engaged in a number of non-commercial activities which aim to support the development of various Open Source based projects and applications. The company is a long term supporter and donor to MODx open source content management system and web application framework. It also donates to CentOS, Drupal and to various Textpattern communities. The web host sponsors a large number of web blogs.
References
- ↑ "WHOIS information for HostColor.com". http://whois.domaintools.com/hostcolor.com. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
- ↑ "Host Color Launches New Service". The Web Host Industry Review. January 3, 2007. http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/010307_Host_Color_Launches_New_Service.
- Interviews
- News in web hosting media
- Company's news in TheWHIR
- Host Color Announces Custom VPS Hosting
- CMSwire: Host Color Adds Wiki, Pligg to Hosted Site Offerings
- MyHostNews.com: Host Color Debuts “pZone”, A New Generation Web Hosting CRM
- WebHostingTalk: Host Color Web Hosting Services, Include Drupal Plans
- Webhosting.info: Host Color Deploys Special WordPress Hosting Service
- HostReview: Host Color Offers Textpattern Hosting
- Clickfire: Moodle CMS Added at HostColor
- TheWHIR: Host Color Celebrates 5 Years
- EMediaWire: Host Color Completes New Version of its Control Panel
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