Product Overview
Product Introduction
Bare metal is a high-performance cloud server with exclusive physical resources. It has the advantages of lossless performance and resource isolation of physical servers, as well as high security and reliability on the cloud, as well as flexible and fast provisioning, meeting the needs of various applications for high performance and stability.
What is the difference between a bare metal server and a cloud server?
Cloud servers share physical resources among multiple tenants, while bare metal servers have resources that are exclusively available to users. For critical applications or businesses with high performance requirements (such as big data clusters and enterprise middleware systems), and requiring a secure and reliable operating environment, bare metal servers are more suitable.
Advantages compared with self-built IDC
| Bare Metal | Self-built IDC | |
|---|---|---|
| Flexible delivery | You can purchase a batch of bare metal servers in batches through simple operations, quickly build or expand your business cluster, provide real-time business response capabilities, and flexibly respond to business peaks. | The flexibility of self-built IDC is relatively poor. It needs to consider operations such as stocking, procurement cycle, launch operation and maintenance, network/storage/configuration, etc. It takes a long time to complete cluster expansion and online. |
| Convenient Management | A web console is provided so that you can access and operate the server remotely according to your usage habits. | When you need to access or manage the server, you need to contact Operations or build a special O&M system yourself, which is inconvenient. |
| Comprehensive service | You can use public network, float IP and other network services, real-time monitoring services, so that you have the same experience as a cloud server. | The physical machine cluster needs to set up its own internal and external network configurations, and separately set up monitoring functions, such as indicator alarms, visualization and other functions, which is complex to implement. |
| Efficient O&M | We have a professional O&M team and spare parts warehouse in the data center. Once a server or network equipment failure is discovered, engineers will quickly handle it for you. | For traditional IDC, you usually need to purchase additional maintenance services provided by the server manufacturer. |
Product Features
Strong Performance：Dedicated physical machines using high-standard hardware and I/O devices support high-bandwidth, low-latency cloud storage and cloud networks to meet the needs of your high-performance application scenarios.
Resource Independence资：Physical resource isolation, system independence and strong stability, no resource contention, no virtualization overhead and performance loss, and 100% release of computing resources.
Fast Delivery：It supports rapid delivery of resources within minutes, automated deployment of operating systems, storage partitions, external network services, etc., and provides real-time business response capabilities.
Easy O&M：No O&M costs of traditional physical hosts, transportation, construction, deployment, debugging, and lengthy processes are all eliminated,7*24 hours safe hosting.
Application Scenarios
Online Games：
MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game), high concurrency, instantaneous calculation scenarios, strong CPU processing power and network forwarding capabilities can effectively reduce delays and freezes and improve player user experience. It can protect against DDOS, Cc and other attacks and protect the business from being affected by attacks.
Live Streaming：
Provides balanced and stable computing, storage, and network configurations to meet live video streaming, video transcoding and other scenarios that have high requirements for resource exclusivity, security isolation, and performance.
Big Data：
Collect, store, analyze, search, and mine massive data to provide analysis and prediction for user behavior or business.
High Security Business：
Financial, securities and other industries have very high compliance requirements for business deployment. Data security is a top priority in these industries. The use of bare metal can ensure that users have exclusive resources and achieve physical isolation of data. At the same time, it can Keep sensitive data manageable and traceable.
Basic concepts
You also need to understand the following concepts before using a bare metal server:
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Location | Location refers to the geographical area of a physical data center. Complete isolation between different regions ensures maximum stability and fault tolerance between them. To reduce access latency and improve download speed, it is recommended that you choose the area closest to your customer. |
| Instance | Instance is a bare metal server that you create, with physical computing resources including CPU, memory, operating system, network, disk, and other most basic computing components. |
| Image | Image provides the necessary information for running an instance, including operating system, initializing application data. |
| Public IP | Public IP address is a non reserved address on the Internet, and a VPS with a Public IP address can access other computers on the Internet. |
| SSH key | SSH key pairs are a secure and convenient way to log in and authenticate VPS, consisting of public and private keys, and only support Linux instances. |
