IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review

Access to the IBM cloud virtual servers is available to all departments across the organization to deploy as needed.

Used for quickly deploying scalable servers at reasonable rates across development/devops and QA. This helps us to quickly deploy sand box servers where we need to test and validate some thing - Think docker scenarios to prove that something will work in production.

It's reasonable and comparable to other cloud providers, so nothing really significant in terms of cost savings. I do think that across the industry, the pricing tiers aren't all that great and standardized. So you're not comparing apples to apples even when the actual RAM and CPU look similar. This has been a bane and not specific to IBM Cloud. Wish there was a cross-vendor price comparison available.

This works quite well but be aware that there is still a delay between when the server gets initiated and increased demand. Meaning, if there's a sudden sale and you have a sudden surge of users, it's not going to magically support them all right away. It will eventually increase the capacity to support all users but the first surge of users will see your application crash. In those cases, you need to plan and have enough live servers on hand in your load balancing.

The pricing isn't very clear, and when we go to configure the server it's not obvious. If there was more guidance around this, that will help us evaluate these offerings.