Overview
Scalable Bare Metal (SBM) is a separate service from dedicated servers, offering highly reliable servers with fixed configurations, hourly billing, and a unique operational model. This service combines the power of dedicated servers with the scalability of cloud solutions, allowing businesses to access powerful computing resources on demand without long-term commitments.
Concepts
- Hourly billing model: pay only for actual usage, allowing for the cost-optimized management of unpredictable workloads, budget planning, and avoiding over-provisioning of resources.
- Consistent performance: complete control over hardware and applications with no intermediaries. Each server is exclusively yours, ensuring predictable performance and eliminating the issue of "noisy neighbors".
- Efficient infrastructure management: use our API to automate and optimize deployment, scaling, and management of your bare metal servers, seamlessly integrating with existing DevOps tools and processes.
Use cases
- Businesses can quickly scale their server capacity to handle sudden traffic spikes without long-term commitments.
- Developers can deploy servers as needed for testing purposes.
- Researchers and data scientists can access high-performance servers for intensive computational tasks, such as training machine learning models or large language models, without incurring unnecessary long-term costs.
Available features
- Operating system installation (excluding Windows)
- VNC console support
- Ability to add a server to an L2 Segment
- Public API management
Limitations
- The default quota allows for up to 5 servers of a specific SBM configuration per account
- The default quota allows for up to 10 different Scalable Bare Metal configurations in total per account
- SBM can't be used in Firewall, Managed Kubernetes and Load Balancer
Billing
The Scalable Bare Metal service is offered on a post-paid, hourly billing model. Your account balance must cover the previous billing period and include enough funds to operate each server for an additional 12 hours.
There is no traffic commitment: you pay per-GB. All billing services related to Scalable Bare Metal are billed hourly, including the minutes when the service starts and ends.