HostCircle BVAdvantages of Unmanaged Bare Metal Server

What is a Bare Metal Server?

A Dedicated Server is also known as Bare Metal Server. Simply a powerful computer with Server Architecture that is dedicated to an individual or an organization. A Dedicated Server is generally built with enterprise-grade components (read: they seldom fail and has super long endurance rating). The Server is deployed typically in a Data Center environment. A Bare Metal server maybe hosted and managed by a Managed Service Provider (MSP).

Managed Bare Metal Server:

A managed service provider can manage the server, involving the following tasks: Server Hardening, Server Monitoring, Network Monitoring, Service Discovery Alerts, Ongoing Security Audits, Firewall Setup, RAID Monitoring, Recovery Assistance, Faster Reactive Remediation during Failures, Migration Services (Limited to certain scenarios), some level of Software Support, Configuration Changes upon request. This is a costlier version, but you pass on the nitty-gritty work to MSP whereas your IT team can concentrate on improving application/software exclusively. You can save a lot of productivity otherwise spent in security, maintenance and monitoring of the IT infrastructure.

A managed service provider also gives you free consulting for tasks such as hardware choice (saving you valuable money) and advanced alert in case they foresee a failure of a particular component (proactively preventing downtime).

Unmanaged Bare Metal Server:

An Unmanaged Bare Metal Server is one where the provider is responsible only for the uptime and hardware maintenance. The entire Operating System and related software applications are to be managed by you, the customer. This is a highly cost-effective model. You just pay for network connectivity and hardware. Otherwise, with root access at your disposal, you have total control over all dimensions of your server resources. The provider doesn't do any maintenance or anything else in the server's operating system.

The advantages of an Unmanaged Bare Metal Server are many:

• Economical, since you pay only for hardware, connectivity and the hosted data center environment
• In-house IT Security makes maintenance of security protocols, standards and certificates easier
• If you already have an expert IT team, you can leverage their skills to manage resources better since only the hardware is outsourced
• You can have direct information of the status of hardware components. If you are a person who likes to keep things in tight control, an Unmanaged Bare Metal server is the best solution
• Easy to Switch: Unlike a Managed Hosting where you have very little control over the services, configurations and pre-existing software packages, Unmanaged Server is straight forward. A Self-Managed Server will be easy to migrate since you know all the preliminaries and prerequisites needed to prepare a new server. This makes it very easy to switch to a new provider just in case your current provider doesn't work out for some reason.
• Easy to Upgrade: Since you have total control over all software installed, it is very simple to get a new Dedicated Server and migrate all data with minimal downtime without depending on your Service Provider.

Why Unmanaged Bare Metal Server from HostCircle?

• Quality Bandwidth at affordable pricing
• DDoS protection enabled network
• Server located in enterprise Data Center (Equinix AM3 Science Park)
• Periodic backups (add-on)
• Redundant network, power, and cooling with prompt support 24x7

We at HostCircle provide a 99.999% uptime guarantee with our Bare Metal Servers. Our Amsterdam data center and resilient network backbone support our offerings. This means best connectivity and optimum environment for ultimate performance.

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