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With the Raspberry Pi 4 now dishing out some serious performance, companies are rushing to find outlets for its cheap computing power. 

Ikoula, a French web hosting provider has now rolled in the credit-card sized computer as part of its hosting plans. 

With the Raspberry Pi 4 now dishing out some serious performance, companies are rushing to find outlets for its cheap computing power. 

Ikoula, a French web hosting provider has now rolled in the credit-card sized computer as part of its hosting plans. 

European public cloud Scaleway has unleashed what it claims to be the most powerful bare metal server on the market right now. Its Bare Metal Ultimate Performance XL (UP-BM2-XL) server is a statement of intent as much as it is a halo product.

It’s powered by eight Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 processors, each with 28 cores/56 threads clocked at up to 2.7GHz. Intel’s recommended customer price for each is $10,009 – a significant premium due to the fact that it supports eight sockets.

As the name suggests, virtual private servers are virtual machines that act like their dedicated physical servers in spite of the fact that they’re actually running inside of an emulator. Technicians use VM applications to divide the resources of their actual dedicated servers into a number of VPS machines. Each of these is allocated a specific amount of CPU power, RAM, and bandwidth that it has to share with the other machines running on the same piece of hardware.

You might think that VPS systems tend to lag because of the fact that they’re essentially a form of shared hosting, but the opposite is actually true. All of the individual servers receive the right amount of system resources for their current load.

This allows a single mainframe to house several hundred virtual servers,…

Virtual Machines are servers where your webserver runs and is not dedicated to the site. There are many types of virtual machines that you can create. You can have a single page virtual machine where your page is running inside the virtual machine while the main server is running on a dedicated server. This type of virtual machine is great if you want a small website and want to have the resources you need without purchasing the full website that you are going to use for the virtual machine.

The benefits of having a Linux virtual machine are many. When you use a virtual machine instead of dedicated servers, you will not have to host your site on a shared server. If several people are using this type of server, they will…