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Datacenter Countries

The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.

IBM Cloud LayerStack
Australia
Brazil
Canada
France
Germany
Japan
Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States
Hong Kong
Japan
Singapore
Taiwan
United States

Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price in plans tested at vpsbenchmarks.com will be marked as missing.

IBM Cloud LayerStack
Hourly Billing  Yes No
DDOS Protection  No No
Backups  No No
Control Panel  Custom Custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  9 5
Number of Datacenter Continents  4 2
Monitoring Charts  Yes Yes
Admin REST API  Yes Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  No Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes Yes
Reverse DNS  No Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards Credit cards, Alipay
Hidden CPU Model  Yes Yes
Affiliate Program  No Yes
IPv6 support  Yes No
Firewall  Yes Yes
Shelving  No No

Extra Services

Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.

IBM Cloud LayerStack
Backups  -  Instance backups or snapshots
Block storage  -  Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Object storage  -  Data storage for objects, individual files with API access
Load balancer  -  Distribute traffic across set of instances
Floating IP addresses  -  Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Team Management  -  Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account
Managed databases  -  Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ...
Serverless  -  Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs
DDoS protection  -  Distributed Denial of Service protection
Kubernetes  -  Management of Docker containers
GPU instances  -  GPU instances to run your AI workload
Private network  -  Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider

Stengths & Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
IBM Cloud
LayerStack
  • Hong Kong datacenter with direct China network route available.
  • Fast and modern management UI.
  • Pricing is complex, varies by datacenter location and billing cycle.

Performance Comparisons

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