INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In the world of hosting, Bare Metal Servers really are the buzz word of the day
These servers offer a good balance of high performance at a reasonable price, combining as they do the best bits of both dedicated and cloud
typically used by organisations that have steady, high demands for server capacity
For a long time, dedicated servers were king due to their unrivalled performance and lack of contention, but all this high power and
dedication can be expensive, so cloud or virtual servers arose to offer a better value alternative for those who do not need the best
performance, security and control similar to those of a dedicated server, but at a more cost effective price because of the economies of
scale that come from sharing with other customers
Businesses with variable demands and workloads often find that scale able cloud servers work better for them.So how do Bare Metal Servers
fit into this server landscapeBack to the futureOnce upon a time, all servers were Bare Metal Servers, in that servers were kept on the
premises and usually belonged to the organisation using and operating them
client who rented the server
But with organisations wanting to do away with the cost and effort of maintaining and storing their own servers, and with more and more
users all over the world wanting to make use of the server capacity available, data centres that shared the resources and the corresponding
costs between clients gradually came into being.Bare Metal Servers are not completely new therefore - they are more like a reinvention of
dedicated servers - but they do differ from dedicated servers in that they offer shared resources, which keeps the cost at reasonable
Bare Metal Servers is that they are dedicated to you and you alone which ensures high-performance at all times and especially when you need
a short burst of high performance activity
Server, you can see and control usage down to the minute, but with no upfront costs or contracts
Start, stop and pause your Bare Metal Server at any time, and with ongoing cost estimates, you can see a summary of the total amount payable
on the last day of the month
data, a Bare Metal Server could also be perfect for your big data processing
Internet of Things (IoT) devices, for example, collect a huge range of data all the time, but you may only need to process it once a year,
in which case, Bare Metal Servers give the high performance and resources that are needed to process it, as well as the flexibility to be
It may only take a couple of days or weeks to process that data, but with a Bare Metal Server, you only pay for the resources you used
during that time, and not for the whole year round.Ecommerce WebsitesEcommerce websites are another example of where usage can be sporadic
and inconsistent at different times of the year
So, for example, retail websites may expect high volumes of traffic in the lead up to Christmas
In the past, it may have seemed sensible to rent a high-powered dedicated server all year round that had a high enough spec to cope with the
surge of traffic in November and December
So, why not spin up and integrate a Bare Metal Server into your infrastructure to handle the extra processing load for a couple of months
cloud servers to handle the resource - intensive seasonal traffic and have an integrated Bare Metal Server to store the back-end data like
databases of customer details
This hybrid infrastructure gives you the best of both worlds - the scalability of the cloud, as well as the extra power and security of a
dedicated server.Render FarmsBare Metal Servers are being used in a variety of different, and sometimes unexpected, sectors
television visual effects
Bare Metal Servers are a great way of doing this because they give large amounts of resources for short amounts of time, but with no
But one way that production companies try to speed up the output process is by investing in the cloud for the rendering and exporting of the
film used to be a process that would literally take years
Each frame of a Pixar animation can take between 10 and 100 hours of CPU time to render, so if you multiply that by between 24 and 60 frames
per second, and then multiply again for a roughly ninety-minute film, and a theoretical render time for a film on a single machine could hit
between 10 and 100 million processing hours - or between 100 and 1,000 years
a super computer cluster of machines that are rendering simultaneously
What takes one machine 100 hours to render, 100 machines can now do in one hour
Because with render farms built on the cloud, they can connect thousands of virtual machines to scale down processing times to months
whirring away in a building out in California
The functionality of the cloud allows you to spin up the hypervisor (virtual machine monitor) environment when you need it, and then turn it
off until the sequel.Needs and budgetSo are Bare Metal Servers more than just a flash in the pan or are they here for the foreseeable future
If you want on-demand access, high scalability, and pay-as-you-go features, then bare metal cloud is the answer
forward according to your own findings and experience
