Running Adminer on VPS vs Dedicated vs Bare Metal – What’s your experience?

[AtalNetworks-Dev]

Hey folks,

I’ve been using Adminer for small projects and really like how lightweight it is. Now I’m planning to use it on larger setups and I’m trying to figure out the best hosting environment.

I’d love to hear from anyone who has tried Adminer in these scenarios:

On a decent VPS

On a full dedicated server

On true bare-metal

Some things I’m curious about:

Performance – does Adminer feel noticeably faster or more stable on dedicated/bare-metal compared to a good VPS?

Maintenance – anything tricky when self-managing dedicated servers that I should know about?

Security – any tips for hardening Adminer when it’s exposed on public servers?

Backups – what’s been the most reliable setup for you?

For context, I mostly use Adminer for day-to-day DB edits, but sometimes I’ll run heavy imports or analytic queries, so I want to avoid slowdowns or surprises.

I’ve looked around but couldn’t find a recent thread that covers this directly, so figured I’d ask here.

Small note/disclosure: I came across atalnetworks.com
while researching dedicated/VPS/bare-metal hosting. That’s one of the providers I’m considering for testing, but I’m not here to advertise them — just sharing since that’s part of what got me thinking about this.

Curious to hear your real-world experiences — what’s worked best for you?

Thanks in advance!