Vultr: VPS, Bare Metal & Storage

Vultr is a cloud infrastructure provider offering virtual private servers (VPS), bare metal instances, managed databases, and object storage across a global network of data centers -- a simpler, more predictably-priced alternative to a full hyperscaler for many workloads.

VPS: Virtual, Dedicated, Root Access

A VPS uses virtualization to carve out an isolated slice of a physical server's resources (CPU, RAM, disk), giving root-level control over your own virtual machine -- install whatever software stack the application actually needs.

Bare Metal: When Consistency Matters Most

Unlike a VPS, which shares physical hardware among multiple tenants, bare metal dedicates an entire physical server to one customer -- no "noisy neighbor" resource contention, useful for workloads with strict, predictable performance requirements like a high-throughput database.

Block Storage vs. Object Storage

• Block storage -- an attachable volume, scalable independently of compute, detachable and reattachable to a different instance.

• Object storage -- for unstructured data (files, backups, media) accessed via an HTTP API, not mounted as a traditional filesystem.

Managed Databases

Rather than manually patching, backing up, and managing failover for a self-hosted database on a VPS, a managed database service handles that operational work directly.