IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

What do you like best?

The advantages of having IBM Cloud virtual servers is that the latency and speed is wonderful, they all work at peak performance and there are few drops. The speed with which a VPS instance is deployed is something to consider.

The API manager is simple and for connoisseurs of IT terminology it is very basic to create and adjust the configuration of the VPS.

Compute work of a large company can be perform with this virtual servers.

You can develop applications and server hosting on various operating systems.

Among other features, you can create custom images, you can generate SSH keys, security group, etc.

VPS hosting provider from a reliable company.

What do you dislike?

You have very few options to choose the region of the servers, since it only has 5 regions at the moment. This is important, since the latency is increased in a region farther from your location.

In cases of a VPS crash, which often occurs, it is necessary to have a backup program in the cloud of a third-party company on virtual servers.

Instance monitoring lacks in resources.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

IBM CLOUD Virtual Server is made for personal developers, developers within a small or large company work group. Every IaaS solution requires a good workflow management and this has it. VPS are fine, fast, and secure.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Our IT department where I work has several solutions for virtual private servers and the main reason for its use has to do with the scalability management of the applications on our servers. It means we create, edit and test our applications within servers in the cloud.