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Wondering what a bare metal server is, how it differs from a virtual machine, and why the hosting industry uses the term interchangeably with “dedicated server”? You’ve come to the right place. This is the plain-language version. What is a bare metal server? A bare metal server is a physical server dedicated to a single user (tenant), with all of the server’s resources available directly to that tenant and shared with no one else. “Bare metal” means your operating system runs directly on the physical hardware, the metal, with nothing in between. There is no virtualization layer, no hypervisor, and…