DEV Community

Cover image for Virtualisation Overhead: 6 Signs It’s Time to Move from VPS to Bare Metal
olivia Millie
olivia Millie

Posted on

Virtualisation Overhead: 6 Signs It’s Time to Move from VPS to Bare Metal

As developers and sysadmins, we love the flexibility of virtualised environments. But let's be honest: when you're running a resource-heavy application, the "noisy neighbour" effect and hypervisor overhead become real bottlenecks.

Our team at eServers just published a breakdown of when a business logically needs to drop the VPS and provision a dedicated, bare-metal machine. We cover:

Uncontested CPU/RAM for Core Web Vitals.

Bypassing hypervisor limits for custom RAID and NVMe setups.

Simplifying physical isolation for compliance (GDPR/PCI DSS).

If your infrastructure is starting to throttle your app's performance, give it a read.

Read the full technical guide here

Top comments (0)