Architectural Decision Guide

VPS vs Dedicated Server: When to Upgrade to Bare Metal

Compare virtualized KVM VPS instances with single-tenant bare-metal Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC dedicated hardware.

Executive Architecture Summary

VPS provides outstanding cost efficiency for websites and microservices. Dedicated servers provide raw physical CPU power, custom hypervisor installations (Proxmox/ESXi), and extreme disk I/O for heavy enterprise databases.

Feature Specification	High-RAM KVM VPS Starting from ₹899/mo	Bare Metal Dedicated Starting from ₹5,499/mo
Hardware Tenancy Exclusive access to physical silicon and motherboard.	Virtualized on shared host	100% Single-Tenant Physical Box
Hypervisor Overhead Raw processor throughput for CPU-bound computations.	2-5% virtualization layer	0% (Direct bare-metal execution)
Remote IPMI / KVM Console BIOS-level access and custom ISO mounting over IP.	VNC Web Console	Out-of-band IPMI / iLO Hardware KVM
Hardware RAID Controller Enterprise disk controller with battery-backed cache.	Virtual disk layer	Dedicated Hardware RAID with BBU
Custom Virtualization Run your own internal virtual machines.	Nested virtualization only	Full Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, Hyper-V
Network Port Speed Unmetered network capacity.	1 Gbps shared uplink	1 Gbps to 10 Gbps Dedicated
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