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    • travisdh1
      travisdh1 last edited by

      The announcement page: https://www.vultr.com/news/Deploy-Bare-Metal-Cloud-Servers-With-Vultr/
      The information page: https://www.vultr.com/pricing/baremetal/

      This could be great if you need all the CPU of a single box. Looks like they have all their standard deployment tools available for them as well.

      Currently, only available in Singapore. Hopefully they don't end up so rare as the $2.50 instances.
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      They also have an option for RAID1 or no raid.
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      I'd say this is more good stuff from one of the preferred hosts around here.

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      • dbeato
        dbeato last edited by

        Nice, Amazon is doing so too 🙂
        https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-with-direct-access-to-hardware/

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        • NashBrydges
          NashBrydges last edited by

          Curious as to what the advantage of going bare metal would be over getting 4 x dedicated instance (which is 100% of the server according to this - am I reading this right)? And the 4 x dedicated instance, if this is truly the whole server, would be cheaper and get you more bandwidth. Sure, the bare metal has no hypervisor but wouldn't you want virtualized OS anyway? I'm not sure I see the benefit.

          https://www.vultr.com/features/dedicatedcloud/

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          • Obsolesce
            Obsolesce @NashBrydges last edited by

            @nashbrydges said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

            Curious as to what the advantage of going bare metal would be over getting 4 x dedicated instance (which is 100% of the server according to this - am I reading this right)? And the 4 x dedicated instance, if this is truly the whole server, would be cheaper and get you more bandwidth. Sure, the bare metal has no hypervisor but wouldn't you want virtualized OS anyway? I'm not sure I see the benefit.

            https://www.vultr.com/features/dedicatedcloud/

            You can install your own hypervisor.

            It's a server. Do with it what you'd normally do.

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            • scottalanmiller
              scottalanmiller @NashBrydges last edited by

              @nashbrydges said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

              Curious as to what the advantage of going bare metal would be over getting 4 x dedicated instance (which is 100% of the server according to this - am I reading this right)? And the 4 x dedicated instance, if this is truly the whole server, would be cheaper and get you more bandwidth. Sure, the bare metal has no hypervisor but wouldn't you want virtualized OS anyway? I'm not sure I see the benefit.

              https://www.vultr.com/features/dedicatedcloud/

              If you want to build a huge LXD host or something.

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              • bigbear
                bigbear last edited by

                really wish there was one with GPU to access

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                • travisdh1
                  travisdh1 @bigbear last edited by

                  @bigbear said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                  really wish there was one with GPU to access

                  More like a compute card, basically a GPU without a display output. Kinda like https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/elastic-gpus/details/ ?

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                  • bigbear
                    bigbear @travisdh1 last edited by bigbear

                    @travisdh1 said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                    @bigbear said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                    really wish there was one with GPU to access

                    More like a compute card, basically a GPU without a display output. Kinda like https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/elastic-gpus/details/ ?

                    Will have to read link when not driving, just wish I could have RemoteFX for Server 2016 RDSH which requires Hyper-V. I am assuming you can now roll Hyper-V on this new bare metal solution?

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                    • scottalanmiller
                      scottalanmiller @bigbear last edited by

                      @bigbear said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                      @travisdh1 said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                      @bigbear said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                      really wish there was one with GPU to access

                      More like a compute card, basically a GPU without a display output. Kinda like https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/elastic-gpus/details/ ?

                      Will have to read link when not driving, just wish I could have RemoteFX for Server 2016 RDSH which requires Hyper-V. I am assuming you can now roll Hyper-V on this new bare metal solution?

                      Must be able to.

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                      • travisdh1
                        travisdh1 @bigbear last edited by

                        @bigbear said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                        @travisdh1 said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                        @bigbear said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                        really wish there was one with GPU to access

                        More like a compute card, basically a GPU without a display output. Kinda like https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/elastic-gpus/details/ ?

                        Will have to read link when not driving, just wish I could have RemoteFX for Server 2016 RDSH which requires Hyper-V. I am assuming you can now roll Hyper-V on this new bare metal solution?

                        I don't see an option to do it correctly, but they do have 2012 R2 and 2016 versions of Windows Server available. You'd have to upload the Hyper-V ISO to get it installed bare-metal like it should be.

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                        • dafyre
                          dafyre last edited by

                          That seems awful expensive though... $300 per month?

                          I'm getting roughly half the specs for $25 a month...

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                          • coliver
                            coliver @dafyre last edited by

                            @dafyre said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                            That seems awful expensive though... $300 per month?

                            I'm getting roughly half the specs for $25 a month...

                            You don't have access to hardware though. Which is where the additional expense comes in.

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                            • dafyre
                              dafyre @coliver last edited by

                              @coliver said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                              @dafyre said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                              That seems awful expensive though... $300 per month?

                              I'm getting roughly half the specs for $25 a month...

                              You don't have access to hardware though. Which is where the additional expense comes in.

                              What do you mean? My box is bare metal.

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                              • coliver
                                coliver @dafyre last edited by

                                @dafyre said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                                @coliver said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                                @dafyre said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                                That seems awful expensive though... $300 per month?

                                I'm getting roughly half the specs for $25 a month...

                                You don't have access to hardware though. Which is where the additional expense comes in.

                                What do you mean? My box is bare metal.

                                From Vultr?

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                                • dafyre
                                  dafyre @coliver last edited by

                                  @coliver said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                                  @dafyre said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                                  @coliver said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                                  @dafyre said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                                  That seems awful expensive though... $300 per month?

                                  I'm getting roughly half the specs for $25 a month...

                                  You don't have access to hardware though. Which is where the additional expense comes in.

                                  What do you mean? My box is bare metal.

                                  From Vultr?

                                  From OVH.

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                                    Alex Sage last edited by

                                    From Wholesale Internet:

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                                    • Obsolesce
                                      Obsolesce @Alex Sage last edited by

                                      @aaronstuder said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                                      From Wholesale Internet:

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                                      I wouldn't want a bare-metal server without some kind of redundant disk. That's why, with my VPS, that I went VPS instead of bare-metal (well one of the reasons). The twice as beefy bare-metal only had a single disk drive in it. No thanks.
                                      The VPS uses RAID10 SSDs.

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                                        Alex Sage @Obsolesce last edited by

                                        @tim_g I understand but still no where close to $300.

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                                        Also, if you wanted to, you could buy 2 😉

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                                        • Obsolesce
                                          Obsolesce @Alex Sage last edited by

                                          @aaronstuder gotcha...

                                          I was trying to stay at the $20 mark. I did have the option of adding more physical drives and other resources too. But that increased the price.

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                                          • travisdh1
                                            travisdh1 @Alex Sage last edited by

                                            @aaronstuder said in Vultr now doing Bare Metal.:

                                            @tim_g I understand but still no where close to $300.

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                                            Also, if you wanted to, you could buy 2 😉

                                            While that company is a good value, and where I currently run my home lab from. The first of the two servers I had with them had all kinds of drive issues, even after the HDDs were replaced. Many support cases later, I ended up just moving it all to a different server. Would never trust them to run actual workloads, sadly.

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