IBM Bare Metal Servers are amazing and the best priced option in the market.
August 26, 2020

IBM Bare Metal Servers are amazing and the best priced option in the market.

John Rivers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

We use IBM Bare Metal servers for hosting web applications. Their performance is great, and their support is even better. I really appreciate all of the communication, updates, and flexibility that IBM offers. The scalability is easy and all of the services are very cost-effective. No more AWS! IBM is the best!

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Cost effective
  • Performance
  • Security

Cons

  • Needed to work with a sales rep to get exactly what I needed.
  • Had to move my server after one year since they were shutting down a data center (they gave 9 months notice though).
  • Bandwidth is limited too much in my opinion.
  • Uptime has been a huge impact to my bottomline.
  • ROI compared to Amazon was huge (IBM is half the cost).
  • Moving servers to a new data center is a pain, so make sure you are in a newer DC.
IBM servers are just as fast and are half the price.
If you are using AWS, SWITCH! IBM is half the price, has the same scalability, and has excellent support.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Feature Ratings

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
10
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
8
Monitoring tools
5
Pre-defined machine images
5
Operating system support
10
Security controls
8

Comments

  • Joe Cornejo | TrustRadius Reviewer
    John, Thanks for the feedback! We appreciate the insight and will use this commentary to continually improve the offering going forward. Please do reach out if we can help with anything else at all with your IBM experience!

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