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Finally! That's where ARM Alta CPUs shine Try your luck to get them for free in oracle free tier, just make sure to have backups!
Also haven't been sued yet. But let's see.
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If you have access to them a much more informative datapoint would be `openssl speed rsa` or `lzbench`. Sysbench is just a stunt it doesn't indicate much at all.
Here's a lzbench dd if=/dev/urandom of=1GB.bin bs=64M count=16 iflag=fullblock Intel: Compressor Compress. Decompress. Compr. size Ratio Filename memcpy 5062 MB/s 5013 MB/s 1073741824 100.00 1GB.bin zstd 1.5.2 -2 2083 MB/s 4743 MB/s 1073766410 100.00 1GB.bin zstd 1.5.2 -5 210 MB/s 4775 MB/s 1073766410 100.00 1GB.bin zstd 1.5.2 -9 85.5 MB/s 4774 MB/s 1073766410 100.00 1GB.bin Arm: Compressor Compress. Decompress. Comp…
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These are VPSs. You can SSH, use the root user, and when setting up you can choose what OS to use, they give a list or iirc they let you upload your own ISO.
Any recommendations for an uncomplicated server OS which will just run Docker, SSH and not much more? I'm currently running Ubuntu but am open to alternatives. My local Raspberry Pi uses a fun, but little maintained OS called Hypriot which is just this: Start Docker and not much more.
Did a quick comparison between intel 2 vCPU and Arm 2 vCPU, these are shared CPUs though so YMMV: sysbench cpu --threads=2 run Intel events per second: 1864.20 Arm events per second: 6687.05 Coremark Intel iterations/sec: 20077.633516 Arm iterations/sec: 23625.767837
If you have access to them a much more informative datapoint would be `openssl speed rsa` or `lzbench`. Sysbench is just a stunt it doesn't indicate much at all.
To offer a somewhat more varied example I've tested the POV-Ray benchmarker on Debian 11 on Oracle's Ampere Altra servers ("A1.Flex") versus an identical setup/build running on a 2 GHz EPYC 7281-based x86-64 VPS, and on that single-threaded test the Arm VPS handily outpaced the EPYC with almost 2x the performance.
Never figured out how to use Hertzner. Wanted to try since they get such a good reputation on here, but they banned my account when their system presented no way for me to verify my identity. The required either PayPal or passport. I have no PayPal account, and their 3rd party verification system only allows passport from your country of residence (signup requires providing a contact address and they pre fill using t…
They are remarkably well known for having draconian anti-fraud
Never figured out how to use Hertzner. Wanted to try since they get such a good reputation on here, but they banned my account when their system presented no way for me to verify my identity. The required either PayPal or passport. I have no PayPal account, and their 3rd party verification system only allows passport from your country of residence (signup requires providing a contact address and they pre fill using t…
Could somebody walk me through why ARM based servers are so inexpensive compared to their x86 counterparts? Is performance much lower? 16 cores & 32gb of RAM for less than 25 euros seems like a bargain.
Maybe competition? x86 has only 2 competitors left. ARM has more diverse ecosystem of competitors and the environments ha been different. ARM design had to be adjusted/developed for a cell phones often cost 10% of a normal computers (main use of x86). I can buy a cell phone a display, battery, memory and ARM cpu for $100 total (no idea how much ARM chip alone cost). The phone will have a semi-acceptable performance.…
Never figured out how to use Hertzner. Wanted to try since they get such a good reputation on here, but they banned my account when their system presented no way for me to verify my identity. The required either PayPal or passport. I have no PayPal account, and their 3rd party verification system only allows passport from your country of residence (signup requires providing a contact address and they pre fill using t…
The latest Xeon and EPYC offerings are very performance competitive, I doubt we need to overhaul and entire processor ISA paradigm for continued improvements.
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If you have access to them a much more informative datapoint would be `openssl speed rsa` or `lzbench`. Sysbench is just a stunt it doesn't indicate much at all.
Here's a lzbench dd if=/dev/urandom of=1GB.bin bs=64M count=16 iflag=fullblock Intel: Compressor Compress. Decompress. Compr. size Ratio Filename memcpy 5062 MB/s 5013 MB/s 1073741824 100.00 1GB.bin zstd 1.5.2 -2 2083 MB/s 4743 MB/s 1073766410 100.00 1GB.bin zstd 1.5.2 -5 210 MB/s 4775 MB/s 1073766410 100.00 1GB.bin zstd 1.5.2 -9 85.5 MB/s 4774 MB/s 1073766410 100.00 1GB.bin Arm: Compressor Compress. Decompress. Comp…