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Application hosting starter
4 Cores
16 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
Application hosting growth
16 Cores
32 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
Application hosting plus
36 Cores
384 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
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Dedicated hosting starter
4 Cores
16 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
Dedicated hosting growth
20 Cores
32 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
Dedicated hosting plus
40 Cores
32 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
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Game server hosting starter
4 Cores
16 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
Game server hosting growth
28 Cores
32 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
Game server hosting plus
40 Cores
32 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
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GPU server hosting starter
16 Cores
32 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
GPU server hosting growth
28 Cores
32 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
GPU server hosting plus
36 Cores
384 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
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Web hosting starter
4 Cores
16 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
Web hosting growth
16 Cores
32 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
Web hosting plus
36 Cores
384 GB RAM
20 TB bandwidth*
Dedicated, secure, high-performance servers
IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers are fully dedicated servers providing maximum performance and secure, single tenancy. No hypervisor means you get direct root access to 100% of your server resources. Customize it all with over 11 million configurations to choose from. Easily move workloads across generations of servers with customized images. We also lowered our bare metal server prices, on average, by 17% across the board — and included 20 TB of bandwidth, cost-free. Choose from hourly, monthly or reserved billing, and more, at prices set for smart cost management.
Features
Key product features
Server billing options
Monthly bare metal
Starting at USD 162 per month
Reserved bare metal
Requires a 1-year or 3-year contract
Hosting solutions
Dedicated web hosting
Dedicated application hosting
Dedicated game hosting
Testimonial
The advantages speak for themselves. When we’re onboarding a new client or if there’s a surge in demand, our IBM Cloud solution can spin up bare metal servers very fast — within an hour.
Andre Raditya Makmur
Chief Executive Officer, MobileForce Software
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Frequently asked questions
Get answers to the most commonly asked questions about this product.
What are the benefits of a bare metal server?
The primary benefits of bare metal servers are based on the access that end users have to hardware resources. The advantages of this approach include the following:
- Enhanced physical isolation which offers security and regulatory benefits
- Greater processing power
- Complete control of their software stack
- More consistent disk and network I/O performance
- Greater quality of service (QoS) by eliminating the noisy neighbor phenomenon
- Imaging capability for creating a seamless experience when moving and scaling workloads
Taken together, bare metal servers have an important role in the infrastructure mix for many companies due to their unique combination of performance and control.
Why use a bare metal server?
- Customized your way: Choose up to 96 cores, versatile storage, extensive memory and more.
- Wherever you need your data: Over 60 data centers globally put data close to your users.
- The latest technology always: Provision for SAP or add NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, VMware software and more.
- Security: Enjoy highest-level data encryption with data visible only to you.
What's the difference between a bare metal server and a virtual server?
Today, available compute options for cloud services go beyond just bare metal servers and cloud servers. Containers are becoming a default infrastructure choice for many cloud-native applications. Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings have an important niche of the applications market for developers who don't want to manage an OS or runtime environment. And serverless computing is emerging as the model of choice for cloud purists.
But, when evaluating bare metal servers, users still gravitate toward the comparison to virtual servers. For most companies, the criteria for choice are application specific or workload specific. It's extremely common for a company to use a mix of bare metal servers along with virtualized resources across their cloud environment.
Virtual servers are the more common model of cloud computing because they offer greater resource density, faster provisioning times, and the ability to scale up and down quickly as needs dictate. But bare metal servers are the right fit for a few primary use cases that take advantage of the combination of attributes. These attributes are dedicated resources, greater processing power, and more consistent disk and network I/O performance.
- Performance-centric app and data workloads: The complete access and control over hardware resources make bare metal a good match for workloads such as HPC, big data and high-performance databases as well as gaming and finance workloads.
- Apps with complex security or regulatory requirements: The combination of a global data center footprint with physical resource separation has helped many organizations adopt cloud while simultaneously meeting complex security and regulatory demands.
- Large, steady-state workloads: For applications such as ERP, CRM or SCM that have a relatively stable set of ongoing resource demands, bare metal servers can also be a good fit.
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Footnotes
*20 TB bandwidth included in US, Canada and EU data centers; 5 TB bandwidth included in all other data centers. New prices and offers may not be combined with any other current or future discounts.