>I'm with Viv, I think that VM is better here. Normally the hardware used for hosting VMs have many CPUs, and a VM can be assigned 1, 2 or more CPUs in exclusive, so yes, it is possible to have "exclusive use" of CPUs if, in example, the ISP have 20 CPUs in a Server and assign 2 or 4 of them to you. If you need more CPU, then you can pay for more.
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>Anyway, 2 years is a good time interval to try this and get conclusions, without risking too much.
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>I think that the question you can make is this: How many VM hardware can you get, in the worst case, using the same money that you could use with dedicated hardware?

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