IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Pricing

“I am not involved in the pricing off this but I do know the monthly pay as you use billing is cost effective in our environment.”

“Can start off very low budget ($50.00 dollars per month) and scale up in the future when needed. … I like the dedicated servers but they are more expensive than the cloud servers (not a negative, I can understand the price increase).”

“I ran a full day's worth of simulations during my lunch break for less than the cost of extra syrup in my latte.

With a few shell scripts and minor adaptations to the Java-Pommerman launch... … The sales team goes above and beyond when needed.

It's less suitable for cost-conscious customers as their instances are sometimes a lot more expensive than an equivalent on GCP and unlike AWS...”

“Very expensive Windows license values had 60 servers running IBM with $ 12,000 a month and I come back every year reducing the size of the infrastructure I have with IBM. … I no longer recommend IBM due to bad support and the fact it is more expensive than the competition.”

“But nothing is free and the price will be very expensive.”

“But of course, nothing is free and the price will be very expensive.”

“This is [a] cost-effective solution infrastructure as a service as monthly or hourly charges which reduce [the] cost of development as you use it as per your need.”

“When we were buying hardware and paying warranties in USD dollars it was more expensive but now, we don't have to think about that.”

“When they are shut down, they almost charge 0$ Bare-metal OS, No pre-install vendor software Seeing the monthly pricing before creating VS.”

“Thanks to all the price configurations they offer, we don't have to worry about the cost, since we can order the lowest configuration for simple tests or a better one for production.”

“Once fully optimized we were able to actually run MORE servers due to the cost savings, as it becomes a break-even in the previous price we were paying for a lesser amount of servers.”