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I think it's good to hear someone talking about it. I've never used it - perhaps I have the impression that it's not even something I could just go sign up for with a credit card and start using as a non-business entity.

But, I see things like https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm exist, so it must be at least reasonably usable.

What's a reason why someone would consider this over the big three, besides sweetheart deals for big customers?

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One of the cooler things to me is you can order an actual physical server and its entirely only yours. It gets the same infrastructure and care we give everything else but you own and control it entirely. You can select the specific components you want or select a common build that we keep prebuilt for "fast provision". These prebuilt ones are sitting ready for booting via IPMI/BOOTP so with a few clicks you can get a baremetal server thats only yours in a few minutes. You can totally lock us out of it in every way if you want to. Also, the portions of the network where this happens is not an "overlay network" so that translates to extremely predictable latency and jitter characteristics that are actually better than the others can provide. Game companies especially like this but the downside is decreased flexibility because of course its a physical server somewhere so your responsible for managing any container or VM you choose on it. We of course have container and VM and many other things as services as well.

Which is great and all, if done properly. Was this fixed properly? What’s the IBM equivalent to AWS’ Nitro or GCP’s Titan?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/26/ibm_softlayer_serve...

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