So even though the dedicated CPU option has stable performance, the shared CPU is almost 4x as fast. Sure, the shared results would fluctuate but given they are similar priced. Or maybe I was just lucky and got on an empty node.
> So even though the dedicated CPU option has stable performance, the shared CPU is almost 4x as fast
The difference between Rome and Milan is rather minor, but if you do get genoa on dedicated it's like a 50% difference, which would turn the tide somewhat.
Thought the same, but got banned from Hetzner twice and had no way to get to customer support to solve the issue. There's a reason why they are so cheap.
It's not just expensive, it's EXPENSIVE by the way of not having upgraded their fleet in years. Things move fast now. It's not the Intel lake generations where you could sit for years.
When genoa (AMD) / sapphire rapids (Intel) lifts the game by ~30-50% in 1 generation, suddenly AWS vs Digital Ocean won't be as far off and a few generations later it's caught up.
Does Digital Ocean even have Milan yet, which is now last generation? Some plans only...
Hetzner and Digital Ocean are competing for small customers in a way that AWS, GCP and Azure don't need to.
If you only need a few hosts, you've got tons of options on where to get them, so competitive pricing is important.
If you want thousands of hosts, geographically distributed, and especially if you're a sizable company that cares more about best practices than costs, top tier cloud hosting is what you want, rather than low cost hosting. If you need a lot of equipment and want flexibility, you can get that at a big host, but it's harder from a smaller one. As a big customer of a medium-large host, with lots of promised flexibility, it was pretty easy to see how it worked for small requests and how it didn't for large requests (and it was fine, we'd ask for 200 servers of X and they'd give us a timeline and largely hit the timeline, but it wasn't the 1-3 hour timeline you get for a less than ten order; sometimes they'd already have equipment and need a week to cross ship and assemble, sometimes it would be a few weeks because they'd need do do vendor orders etc)
Do you mean the big-3 cloud platforms ? Their value proposition and lock-in mechanism is the palette of services and platforms, even though the services are not individually cost competitive. And they have high profit margins (eg AWS makes most of Amazon's profits).
Hetzner seems to have the best deals in cloud computing right now, especially for individuals / small companies. I'm excited for their dedicated ARM vCPUs to become available!
4 GB, 3 CPU AMD [1]
8 GB, 4 CPU AMD [2]
8 GB, 2 CPU (dedicated) AMD [3]
So even though the dedicated CPU option has stable performance, the shared CPU is almost 4x as fast. Sure, the shared results would fluctuate but given they are similar priced. Or maybe I was just lucky and got on an empty node.
[1]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/2360706
[2]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/2360698
[3]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/2360730