Vultr is a big player in the cloud hosting space. This article is going to explain server types at Vultr and share Vultr coupon codes, free hosting credits and discounts with readers.

Vultr Server Types

Cloud Compute

A Cloud Compute instance at Vultr is a VPS (Virtual Private Server) with shared CPU. A VPS is a virtual machine (VM) running on a physical server, which uses hypervisor software (such as KVM) to divide CPU, RAM resource and disk space, so as to run many instances of VPS. This is the most common entry-level server among hosting companies.

Each VM has a fixed amount of RAM and disk space to run its own operating system. Customers have root access to their own VPS and can install almost any server software as they see fit. The drawback is that CPU time is shared with other VM. If a VPS instance suddenly gets a lot of traffic, it can impact the performance other VPS instances running on the same physical server. This is known as the noisy neighbors effect.

High Frequency Compute

A high frequency compute instance at Vultr is a premium version of Cloud Compute. It is equipped with 3 GHz+ CPU and NVMe SSD to achieve blazing fast performance.

Dedicated Cloud

A Dedicated Cloud instance at Vultr is a VPS with dedicated CPU. It’s designed for CPU-intensive workloads such as CI/CD, video encoding, machine learning, game servers, databases, data mining, and busy application servers.

Bare Metal

Also known as dedicated server, a bare metal server is a single tenant physical server. Bare-metal servers do not run a hypervisor, are not virtualised. The customer has exclusive access to all resources on the server.

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