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Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by sroussey »

tempay wrote: post #47
zackify wrote: post #20

I just ran some massive tests on our own CI. I use AMD Turin for this on gcp, which was noted as one of the fastest ones in the article. The most insane part here is that the AMD EPYC 4565p can beat the turin's used on the cloud providers, by as much as 2x in the single core. Our tests took 2 minutes on GCP, 1 minute flat on the 4565p with its boost to 5.1ghz holding steady vs only 4.1ghz on the gcp ones. GCP charges…

This is basically the premise of https://www.blacksmith.sh/ as far as I know, though without the need to host the hardware yourself and the potential complexity they comes with that.

I did have some MySQL servers racked for over a decade and I was afraid to restart the machines. And yes as new versions of MySQL came out I did have to compile them myself.

Similar lower specced machines that were closer to the public internet had boot disk failures, but I had a few of them, so it wasn’t an issue. Spinning metal and all.

One of the db servers dying would have required a next day colo visit… so I never rebooted.

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by sroussey »

Melatonic wrote: post #54
icelancer wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self-racking lets you rack a bunch of gear you'd never find in VM/dedicated rentals, like consumer parts or older, still very good parts. Overclocking options are available as well if you DIY. If you need single-threaded performance, colo is really the only way to go anyway. We have two full racks and we're super happy with them.

Or under clocking and under volting for even better performance to price/power/longevity ratios

For a single rack, you really don’t have too many choices for power. You make a choice to provision and pay, I never had anyone check how much of that I used and give me money back. Maybe things have changed though.

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by sroussey »

api wrote: post #48
zackify wrote: post #20

I just ran some massive tests on our own CI. I use AMD Turin for this on gcp, which was noted as one of the fastest ones in the article. The most insane part here is that the AMD EPYC 4565p can beat the turin's used on the cloud providers, by as much as 2x in the single core. Our tests took 2 minutes on GCP, 1 minute flat on the 4565p with its boost to 5.1ghz holding steady vs only 4.1ghz on the gcp ones. GCP charges…

Big cloud is ludicrously expensive. It’s truly amazing. Bandwidth is even worse. It’s like a 10000X markup.

It’s wild that no one knows just how cheap bandwidth really is. AWS pulled one over on people and it’s like the movie studios still demanding 10% of the top for VHS distribution. Today.

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by satvikpendem »

oDot wrote: post #39
zackify wrote: post #20

I just ran some massive tests on our own CI. I use AMD Turin for this on gcp, which was noted as one of the fastest ones in the article. The most insane part here is that the AMD EPYC 4565p can beat the turin's used on the cloud providers, by as much as 2x in the single core. Our tests took 2 minutes on GCP, 1 minute flat on the 4565p with its boost to 5.1ghz holding steady vs only 4.1ghz on the gcp ones. GCP charges…

I used to run a site that compares prices[0]. Not only is the ecosystem pull to the cloud strong, but many developers today look at bare metal as downright daunting. Not sure where that fear comes from. Cloud challenges can be as or more complex than bare metal ones. [0]: https://baremetalsavings.com/

> Not sure where that fear comes from.

Probably because most developers these days have not known a world without using cloud providers, with AWS being 20 years old now.

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by jmathai »

satvikpendem wrote: post #65
oDot wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to run a site that compares prices[0]. Not only is the ecosystem pull to the cloud strong, but many developers today look at bare metal as downright daunting. Not sure where that fear comes from. Cloud challenges can be as or more complex than bare metal ones. [0]: https://baremetalsavings.com/

> Not sure where that fear comes from. Probably because most developers these days have not known a world without using cloud providers, with AWS being 20 years old now.

Racking your own hardware doesn’t get you web UIs and APIs out of the box. At least it didn’t 2 decades ago.

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by BeastMachine »

dkechag wrote: post #24
doener wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the image? The text does not sound like AI at all IMHO.

> No theory. No fluff. Just production. ChatGPT tells me "no theory, no fluff" all the time :D

Where do you think it learned that phrasing from?

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by winrid »

tehlike wrote: post #58
preserves wrote: post #53

Disclosure: I work on VMs at Google Compute Engine :) This was a really, really good write-up. I appreciated the breadth of VMs tested and the spread of benchmarks. A few random observations: 1. Turin is a beast. 2. The data on price-performance makes Hetzner look really fantastic, especially for small scale projects where region placement doesn’t matter much and big bursty scaling isn’t required. 3. I think the firs…

Hetzner really shines with their dedicated stuff.

Yeah, a $45 hetzner box would probably be at the top of all these charts, but it's a little more work to provision.

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by satvikpendem »

jmathai wrote: post #66
satvikpendem wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not sure where that fear comes from. Probably because most developers these days have not known a world without using cloud providers, with AWS being 20 years old now.

Racking your own hardware doesn’t get you web UIs and APIs out of the box. At least it didn’t 2 decades ago.

Sure, now it does however (via the many OSS PaaS) so the calculus must also therefore change.

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by winrid »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #60

There are definitely ways to get some really good hardware from lowend shops as well. Hetzner is pretty decent too actually but I actually think that OVH might be even cheaper while still being competitive, but in the case of OVH, I think one minor issue people can have is the setup fee at times but time to time like during black fridays or special deals, there are ways to get 0 setup fees. If someone wants something…

At fastcomments we split our fleet across both ovh and hetzner Incase of an issue so it's been interesting to compare the reliability etc. I don't have anything bad to say about either provider.
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