IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose.
$0.51
per hour
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
Score7.9 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are customizable, public or private, cloud-based servers available from IBM. User can launch applications and software across blended, hybrid environments as the servers integrate with all cloud models.
$0.01
per hour
Pricing
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
Editions & Modules
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
starting at $0.51
per hour
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
starting at $241.00
per month
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)
starting at $0.22
per hour
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)
starting at $149.00
per month
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (multi-tenant)
starting at $0.038
per hour
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (multi-tenant)
starting at $25.21
per month
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (reserved)
starting at $0.02
per hour
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (reserved)
starting at $13.27
per month
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (transient)
starting at $0.01
per hour
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
Optional
Optional
Additional Details
IBM Bare Metal Servers offer a choice between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or can be customized with single to quad processing solutions. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts. Amonthly bare metal server built to spec can be ordered and made available in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. An hourly bare metal server can be ordered, and it is made ready for in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.
IBM Cloud virtual servers include 250 GB of outbound public bandwidth, unmetered inbound public bandwidth, and unmetered private and management network bandwidth.
Web Developer in Information Technology at Fanbuild (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
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.
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Verified User
Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Depending on the scenario, a bare metal server has advantages over a virtual machine - It has dedicated resources and therefore offers better and more reliable performance.
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Programmer in Engineering at Avasopht Development (Computer Games, 1-10 employees)
Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is much more appropriate than IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers as a remote development machine, as it is only being billed for a third of the day. However, it has fewer options (such as not having access to the T4 GPU).
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CEO & MD in Corporate at Gurjartech Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
We used to have our virtual machines at a contender however IBM's item range is substantially more practical which expanded our ROI. Likewise having a cooperate with IBM opens up entryways that would've recently been closed.
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Verified User
Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
Bare Metal Servers are amazing in performance but they're slow to spin up and slow to reconfigure for additional resources. Virtual Machines allows us to be more flexible and more dynamic in our current workloads.
We used to host our virtual machines at a competitor but IBM's …
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Verified User
Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are different from IBM Cloud Virual Servers as Virtual servers are virtualized and are not dedicated. This can lead to less performance rates and optimization. This is why our company has chose to use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to optimize our …
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Co-Founder in Engineering at GoPlay (Computer Games, 1-10 employees)
Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
We still haven't reached the critical volumes where every resource is full. For our usage we prefer IBM because it's cheaper than competition plus they have a very generous StartUp programs. The live support chat and debugging is really helpful and it's available even on the …
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Verified User
Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
If the budget is limited and the required resource is small, VSi is better than Bare Metal.
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Verified User
Chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
In my region (Central America) Amazon and Azure are the main competition. I selected IBM Cloud because of the support and price performance.
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Features
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers and IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
