Efficiency. Security. Performance. When digital infrastructure is the subject, these are just some of the main concerns keeping DevOps engineers awake at night in cutting-edge technology companies.

Still, there's one solution to address them all and it's very straightforward: dedicated servers. This article brings up some of the main reasons why bare metal is the ideal solution for your infra needs. 

So, without further ado, let's dive into each one.

Uptime

Dedicated server hosting already has a good reputation when it comes to reliability and high uptime, and this is what makes it such a great choice for businesses that require constant availability. 

The key aspect here is not sharing the server's resources with other tenants, which means the risk of downtime due to server overload is dramatically reduced.

Many data centers offer Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that guarantee a certain level of uptime, often 99.99% or higher, and that's what Latitude.sh works with. 

Any downtime can lead to revenue loss or even a damaged reputation, which makes uptime fundamental for business applications running on cloud computing.

By using a dedicated server with a reliable provider, you can rest assured your workloads won't be interrupted and your online presence will remain strong.

Low Latency

The time it takes for data to travel from the server to the end user plays, as anyone might expect, a critical role in user experience. 

When it comes to business applications that require almost real-time interactions or rapid data retrieval, latency is even more important.

With dedicated server hosting, choosing a data center location that is geographically closer to the end user can make a lot of difference, since information will travel faster between the client and the host.

A bare metal provider like Latitude.sh has dedicated servers available at 16 global locations, so you can run your workloads close to the largest technology hubs and consumer markets. This means your end users will experience way faster response and load times, an ideal scenario for online gaming, live streaming services and even managing financial transactions.

Enhanced Security

Generally speaking, dedicated servers always offer a higher level of security compared to their shared hosting counterparts. And the reason is not hard to guess. 

As single-tenant servers, the available resources are not shared with any other users; therefore, the risk of security breaches due to malicious neighboring applications and jammed network resources is virtually eliminated.

Moreover, dedicated server hosting allows for more stringent access controls, ensuring that only authorized users can manage and access the server.

This additional security layer is especially attractive for business applications, as it provides a safer way to handle sensitive data.

At Latitude.sh, the platform also contains layers of security protection from DDoS attacks in all locations, ensuring that all dedicated servers available at our sites are protected.

Better Performance

A dedicated server, as provided by Latitude.sh, offers superior performance because all of the server’s resources—from the CPU, RAM, and Storage to the Bandwidth capacity—belong to a single tenant.

This ensures faster processing times, quicker load speeds, and the ability to handle high volumes of traffic without any degradation in performance.

Unlike shared hosting, your workloads won't be competing for the server's resources with a hypervisor layer or with the workloads of noisy neighbors, ensuring that anything you run is getting 100% of what the hardware has to offer.

This is particularly important for resource-intensive applications, such as large e-commerce platforms, high-traffic websites, or data-heavy machine learning services.

High Bandwidth Availability

High Bandwidth options are a must when it comes to dedicated servers, and the final users are the ones who benefit the most from them.

The larger the volume of data transmission your application must handle, the more bandwidth you will need, and a top-tier bare metal provider should be able to address that.

Latitude.sh offers fully dedicated servers with network connections of up to 2 x 100 Gbps ports, all supported by our custom data center topology, featuring high-bandwidth ports connected to redundant internet providers, some of the largest IXs worldwide, and on-demand private connections to hyperscalers. These high-bandwidth network features are in place to enable all sorts of workloads within our infrastructure, be it streaming media, supporting a high number of concurrent users, running high throughput applications, or dealing with vast amounts of data for machine learning.

Long-Term Cost Efficiency

At first, the cost of a dedicated server may seem higher than that of a shared hosting (or virtual server), but that is usually a misconception of the cloud industry, with bare metal users saving up to 60% of their cloud bill. When users start listing all costs from their cloud bill, compute is just a fraction of the final amount, with aspects like egress and ingress fees making the final sum go up through the roof. 

On Latitude.sh, clients can deploy dedicated servers for just a fraction of their VM counterparts and save a lot on bandwidth fees.

Moreover, dedicated servers, as we mentioned a few times, offer better performance, reliability, and security. 

So, it is very unlikely that clients will ever experience security breaches or performance bottlenecks, which can also incur extra costs.

In short, when you go for a single-tenant server, operational efficiency is way higher, and with top-tier providers like Latitude.sh, you can find cost-effective options that will help save and have predictable cloud billing.

Server Customization

One of the significant advantages of dedicated server hosting in top-tier providers is being able to address your compute needs on custom-built machines. As your business grows, your servers can be upgraded to accommodate the changes in the workloads you are running, such as increased traffic, larger storage needs, or just more raw computing power. 

In case you need to add more RAM, upgrade your CPU, or increase your storage capacity, a custom dedicated server provides the flexibility to scale your infrastructure without the limitations that often come with virtual servers on shared hosting environments or bare metal providers that rely only on off-the-shelf products.

At Latitude.sh, we offer tailored solutions to ensure that your servers reflect the actual needs of your business and that they can support your growth without the need for frequent migrations or overhauls.

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