Cloud, VMs, IaaS, VPS, Dedicated Servers and Bare Metal Servers are all different names for similar services. Cloud Hosting/VM and VPS are synonyms for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), essentially renting a slice of a server and related infrastructure. On the other hand, with Bare Metal and Dedicated Servers you are renting the entire server.  […]

Why Clouds’ Use of Multi-Core Server Virtualization Might be Costing You a Lot of Money Cloud, VMs, IaaS, and VPS providers almost exclusively use large core count CPUs and slice up those servers into smaller chunks.  This works great for the provider as they can slice a single server up many different ways to maximize […]