Uhh, a statement like this somewhat hurts the ability to trust the other claims of the benchmark. Sure, Linode has the lowest clock speed, but you're comparing Epyc Milan which is almost a decade newer than the Sandy-Bridge EP of Cloudfanatic for example. Unsurprisingly, this is even reflected in the one cpu benchmark run, geekbench, which Linode comes first in.
> Uhh, a statement like this somewhat hurts the ability to trust the other claims of the benchmark.
Why?
> Sure, Linode has the lowest clock speed, but you're comparing Epyc Milan which is almost a decade newer than the Sandy-Bridge EP of Cloudfanatic for example.
Sure, but also take into consideration that the Linode instance costs $48/month while the Cloudfanatic one costs $18/month. Both of them have the same amount of CPU cores too.
Seems like this is a Linode problem of offering old hardware, instead of a problem with the benchmark itself.
Hetzner was likely excluded because they have a habit of preventing signups, randomly banning accounts, or blackholing traffic exactly when your app is taking off because their shitty tech thinks your system was compromised or under a DDOS attack.
The pricing here always confused me. I thought VPS's were supposed to be cheaper than hardware. At $50+/month you're into dedicated pricing in my mind.
I use Vultr, Digital Ocean, and Scaleway quite extensively, and my personal anecdote is the Scaleway, while gives a great bang for buck, comes with disk speed issues in their low priced servers.
None of them are. There’s no way you could make money doing that in the VPS market especially with the ludicrous bandwidth costs at AWS.
Most VPS providers rent rack space at large colocation facilities in multiple cities. In some cases they locate right next to major peering points for very good peering and very cheap bandwidth.
Vultr in particular is massively underrated and is certainly good enough to use in production.
One caveat though: most of these providers don’t handle sanitization of storage or encryption at rest as thoroughly as the big clouds do. I’d recommend handling your own encryption at rest with these if you have sensitive data. See: Vault, LUKS, etc.
just_mc|2 years ago
The machine on one provider might be experiencing more load than a similar machine at a different provider, biasing the results.
That being said, Vultr has been good for our purposes.
Macha|2 years ago
Uhh, a statement like this somewhat hurts the ability to trust the other claims of the benchmark. Sure, Linode has the lowest clock speed, but you're comparing Epyc Milan which is almost a decade newer than the Sandy-Bridge EP of Cloudfanatic for example. Unsurprisingly, this is even reflected in the one cpu benchmark run, geekbench, which Linode comes first in.
capableweb|2 years ago
Why?
> Sure, Linode has the lowest clock speed, but you're comparing Epyc Milan which is almost a decade newer than the Sandy-Bridge EP of Cloudfanatic for example.
Sure, but also take into consideration that the Linode instance costs $48/month while the Cloudfanatic one costs $18/month. Both of them have the same amount of CPU cores too.
Seems like this is a Linode problem of offering old hardware, instead of a problem with the benchmark itself.
8organicbits|2 years ago
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
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Klonoar|2 years ago
http://katapult.io/
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api|2 years ago
Most VPS providers rent rack space at large colocation facilities in multiple cities. In some cases they locate right next to major peering points for very good peering and very cheap bandwidth.
Vultr in particular is massively underrated and is certainly good enough to use in production.
One caveat though: most of these providers don’t handle sanitization of storage or encryption at rest as thoroughly as the big clouds do. I’d recommend handling your own encryption at rest with these if you have sensitive data. See: Vault, LUKS, etc.
sitzkrieg|2 years ago
kazanz|2 years ago
That’s why you’re paying so much for AWS.