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Hypervisor Overhead vs. Bare Metal: When to Leave the Cloud

For early-stage apps, the public cloud is a no-brainer. But what happens when your baseline traffic stabilizes and your database queries start suffering from virtualization overhead?

In our latest post on the eServers tech blog, we break down the technical and financial reasons behind the 2026 "Cloud Repatriation" trend in the UK. We discuss:

How hypervisors impact high-throughput database performance.

The hidden costs of cloud data egress vs. unmetered 10Gbps dedicated pipes.

Why having uncontested access to physical AMD EPYC/Intel Xeon cores matters for real-time applications.

If you're tired of "noisy neighbors" on shared cloud infrastructure, it's worth evaluating bare metal.

Read the full deep dive here: https://www.eservers.uk/blogs/upgrade-cloud-hosting-to-dedicated-servers-uk/

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