IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers vs. OVH Dedicated Servers

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose.
$0.51
per hour
OVH Dedicated Servers
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
OVH offers a wide range of dedicated servers for hosting a wide variety of sites or apps, including ecommerce sites, managing a private network, enterprise web application, DDoS protected gaming servers, and more.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
starting at $0.51
per hour
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
starting at $241.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOVH Dedicated Servers
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsIBM Bare Metal Servers offer a choice between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or can be customized with single to quad processing solutions. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts. Amonthly bare metal server built to spec can be ordered and made available in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. An hourly bare metal server can be ordered, and it is made ready for in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.
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Features
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
8.6
80 Ratings
6% above category average
OVH Dedicated Servers
7.2
1 Ratings
12% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.078 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Dynamic scaling8.862 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Elastic load balancing8.852 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Pre-configured templates8.458 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.571 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.962 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Operating system support8.677 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Security controls8.875 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Automation7.47 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOVH Dedicated Servers
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(82 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(23 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersOVH Dedicated Servers
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
Well suited - 1) To Install required Products/Software in a middleware technology 2) Customize the file system and size of the storage 3) Install required monitoring tools like Tivoli, Splunk, etc. Less appropriate - 1) Maybe for SAAS products that do not require all of the installations.
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OVH
With the dedicated servers, we have maintained a consistent over 99 percent uptime. Several apparel purchases are made on our website every month and therefore having versatile servers is very important. OVH servers are robust enough and offer secure HIPAA compliance. But as you scale higher, and aim to have secure servers you might need to engage security software like SOAR systems as OVH security is not enough.
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Pros
IBM
  • Performance - the servers perform really well, even under stress. We have some long build processes running concurrently, and the server [can] serve other applications without any problems.
  • Secure - for the most part, the servers are very secure and IBM provides many tools to help [make] sure the servers stay that way.
  • Highly Available - while we have experienced various downtimes and outages with other IBM Cloud offerings, so far, we have not experienced any with [IBM Cloud] Bare Metal Servers.
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OVH
  • Automatically archives and backs up storage.
  • It is optimized for large and critical loads.
  • Consistent top uptime.
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Cons
IBM
  • [In my experience, the] Customer Service Agreement (CSA) has many gaps in terms of responsibility with Bare Metal Servers.
  • [I believe] IBM should be deploying servers and firmware updating all components before providing them to customers to prevent component failure.
  • [I feel] IBM needs lots of improvement with their legacy VPN to access IMPI management tools. The level of security of it is unparalleled when it works. Having access to KVM / IPMI is critical for any business, and when their VPN service is not working.
  • [From my experiences,] IBM deployed faulty hardware, or failed to update firmware per Lenovo notices, only to pass off blame.
  • [In my opinion,] IBM's General Counsel and Paralegal held our data/company hostage when components failed, [in my experience] to IBM "gross negligence" (in their words), only to release it if we were to limit damages to $1,000.
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OVH
  • Security options are pretty basic, we must use SOAR software alongside to secure the servers.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
Due to cloud computing taking over the market, I have moved to cloud computing. It is so much easier upgrading or downsizing a virtual server on the cloud vs bare metal. I find it way more convenient on cloud computing. The provisioning takes way too long for bare metal servers.
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OVH
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Support Rating
IBM
Great responsiveness and detailed know-how from the team. Self Explanatory and good resources on the Web to resolve issues. Good communication on issues via email. Good response times on issues which arise and where we have received support from the IBM support team. We believe that IBM is a great Partner to base our IT applications and we believe that a critical infrastructure like a cloud backend will be well served if we continue to base it on IBM.
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OVH
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Implementation Rating
IBM
The implementation of this software took place as we planned. The performance time taken for full functionality was very reliable with positive results. The customer support team was the best team I have ever met in my career experience. They are always with timely responses when reached to offer any help.
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OVH
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
The Best part of this IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers is performance and a very highly usable part is Security stuff. everyone needs to secure their data and work with a smoothly running app. for this reason I select this server rather than another one. I will use it in feature [definitely].
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OVH
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Future readiness--we have the ability to quickly respond and build custom demos for customers in a short timeframe.
  • Savings on hardware--we have the ability to spin up large workloads to demonstrate to customers the performance of our tools and IBM Cloud.
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OVH
  • Consistent 99 percent uptime.
  • Quite affordable, with plans costing barely 100 dollars per month.
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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Screenshots

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