The benefits and trade-offs associated with the service per host style are as follows:
- The hardware (such as processors, memory, and I/O) can be exactly tuned to the use case of the service. Intel offers a range of microservers that are tuned for specific tasks such as graphics processing, web content serving, and so on.
- A very high density of components can be achieved in this solution.
- This style of deployment is for very few use cases that would benefit from hardware-level isolation or specialized hardware needs.
- This is a maturing technology and hence not many data center cloud providers offer it yet. However, it will have matured by the time this book gets published.