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From my personal experience I chose virtual servers over bare metal servers
Updated February 06, 2024

From my personal experience I chose virtual servers over bare metal servers

Jeffrey Lange | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

I used it throughout everything I do for hosting. It addresses all my hosting problems for personal hosting and client hosting.
  • Adding on memory
  • Support
  • Potential of greater processing power
  • I have switched to virtual servers because of their quickness of resources
  • Reloading OS takes a long time
  • Pricing
  • Everything seems slower than a virtual server
I used Bare Metal Servers for several years but after using Virtual servers I am probably not going to return to Bare Metal based on the pricing comparison. Virtual servers seem faster in every aspect to do anything I do. Changing memory is instant. Changing processes is instant. I do not feel there are much advantages of bare metal servers after using virtual servers.

Overall Satisfaction Continued

  • At the beginning bare metal servers were very expensive cost
  • Not enough support to handle questions like load balancing to figure out alone so this prevented me from making more profit because servers would be down
I am currently using all virtual servers and not Bare Metal Servers anymore. I do not see the advantage of paying more and encountering more issues with Bare Metal Servers. Virtual servers seem like a better situation for my use.

Do you think IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers's feature set?

No

Did IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers again?

No

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
7.3
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
8
Dynamic scaling
Not Rated
Elastic load balancing
6
Pre-configured templates
Not Rated
Monitoring tools
Not Rated
Pre-defined machine images
Not Rated
Operating system support
8
Security controls
Not Rated

Using IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

2 - Full implementation of production and development servers. Bare metal servers are not as common as cloud computing for today's modern server needs.
1 - I recommend for people to be very knowledgeable on the Operating System that is installed on the server. I lean more towards Linux operating systems and it's important to know the ins and outs of maintaining the server(s). Server administration is an important role to keep the server updated and analysis logs.
  • scalability
  • networking
  • analytics
  • CDN
  • Disaster recovery and backup
  • security and penetration testing
  • Honestly, I have moved to cloud
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.