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Server rental & colocation
Choosing, pricing and running dedicated servers, colocation and cloud servers.
- Server rental & colocation
Bare metal vs virtual machine: performance, isolation and licensing compared
A bare metal server is a whole physical machine dedicated to you, provisioned like a cloud instance; a virtual machine is a slice of a host carved out by a hypervisor. No hypervisor means no virtualization overhead, no noisy neighbors and licensing by real cores, at the cost of less elasticity.
- Server rental & colocation
Colocation vs dedicated server: five differences and how to choose
With colocation you buy the server, ship it to a data center and pay monthly for space, power and bandwidth; the hardware is yours. With a dedicated server you rent the provider's machine by the month. That difference in ownership drives upfront cost, who fixes failures, flexibility and exit cost.
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