Three models, three logics
VPS, dedicated server, public cloud: the debate is distorted by marketing. Here's the honest comparison, from a host that knows all three.
VPS: the right compromise
Resources guaranteed by KVM virtualization, real isolation, contained pricing. VPS covers 90% of needs: sites, APIs, bots, game servers, internal tools. Its limit: hardware is shared at CPU level — non-oversold hypervisors (like ours) make that limit invisible.
Dedicated: when hardware is the answer
Need more than 64 GB of RAM, a GPU, specific RAID or 24/7 sustained 100% CPU performance? Dedicated wins. The trade-off: no hypervisor snapshot, hardware failover in hours, climbing prices.
Public cloud: the hidden bill
AWS/GCP charge network egress per gigabyte — a $49 VPS with 10 Gbps from us would cost several hundred dollars a month in egress at a hyperscaler under sustained traffic. Public cloud excels at elastic scale across thousands of nodes; it's ruinous for steady workloads.
Our simple rule
Start with VPS. Move to dedicated when a Singularity no longer suffices. Only go to public cloud if you need its managed services — and compute the egress first.