A practical guide to choosing between Bare Metal and Cloud VPS

We get asked this question in almost every sales call, and the honest answer disappoints people who've already decided they want bare metal: most workloads, even fairly demanding ones, run perfectly well on Cloud VPS. The guaranteed-core model means you're not fighting for CPU time with other tenants, and NVMe-backed storage removes most of the I/O bottlenecks that used to push people toward dedicated hardware.

Bare metal earns its cost when you have a specific, concrete reason: a licensing model that's priced per physical socket, a compliance requirement that mandates single-tenant hardware, a database workload sensitive enough that even guaranteed vCPU scheduling jitter matters, or sustained resource usage high enough that a full chassis is cheaper than the equivalent stack of VPS instances.

If none of those apply to you, start on Cloud VPS. You can always move to bare metal later — we've never had a customer regret starting smaller and scaling up once the workload actually demanded it.