The professional service provider that you need if you need to go bare metal
September 04, 2020
The professional service provider that you need if you need to go bare metal
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
We started using this service around 2012 as a solution to host multiple websites, when SoftLayer was not yet part of IBM. We use this service exclusively for this purpose. This service solves our necessity to host multiple websites on a secure environment. We use 5 bare metal servers for this purpose.
Pros
- Professional and proactive tech support.
- Great performance on servers.
- Nice interface to manage the infrastructure and services.
Cons
- Sometimes Chat support is not very useful.
- Some services are expensive if you compare them with cloud infrastructure.
- This service helps us to have a professional hosting service in less than a week.
- We had to get quality hardware in a professional managed data center. The cost was higher than if we had had an in-house solution, but totally worth it.
- The higher cost vs cloud was a factor to switch to another cloud provider.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Cloud vs Bare Metal is a tough call. We chose EC2 to move our solution from IBM because we needed more flexibility. I believe that the choice of one or the other solution must be thought through very carefully. Neither of those is heaven. For us, the change comes in the necessity to have more websites available and to support more web technologies, for example, ElasticSearch.
Bare Metal doesn't have the flexibility of the cloud, that's a given, but sometimes it's better.
On a Bare Metal infrastructure, it requires you to request a new server and configure it, which is not always easy, especially if you want to just test some tech. That's the point when Cloud was big win for us. We can test it without needing to set up a server on our own.
But, if you need a more permanent application, probably you will want a Bare Metal server, tuned to your application.
Bare Metal doesn't have the flexibility of the cloud, that's a given, but sometimes it's better.
On a Bare Metal infrastructure, it requires you to request a new server and configure it, which is not always easy, especially if you want to just test some tech. That's the point when Cloud was big win for us. We can test it without needing to set up a server on our own.
But, if you need a more permanent application, probably you will want a Bare Metal server, tuned to your application.
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