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Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by esseph »

olalonde wrote: post #82
dkechag wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote the article. I would NEVER tell anyone to use Oracle, as the vendor lock in and strong-arming and pricing is ridiculous. That said, I am hosting small projects on Oracle Cloud, due to the super low cost. I can just move them whenever they decide to be naughty, I am not using an oracle DB or anything proprietary, just linux VMs with my own mysql setup.

I was confused by your comment. I assume you meant to say "I would NEVER tell anyone to use Oracle DB" (as opposed to Oracle Cloud)?

I would never let a friend use Oracle anything. Oracle is a predator.

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Post by cb22 »

scorpioxy wrote: post #94
veeti wrote: post #86

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OVH has dedicated in USA and Canada

I've read several reports from customers saying that their customer service is really bad. Difficult to know with online reviews of course. Does anyone have positive stories to share? I am looking at Australian hosts specifically and Hetzner doesn't have any data centers here.

We use them heavily for test boxes and running experiments. Standard off-the-shelf machines are provisioned almost instantly, and never had any problems.

More custom stuff (eg 100Gb/s NICs) takes a bit longer, but they've always been super responsive and quick to sort out any issues!

The price / performance you get from something like their AX162 is just crazy, although unfortunately with the whole RAM / NVMe shortage the setup fee has gone up quite a lot.

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Post by dkechag »

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…

Huh, I have not been able to provision any newer CPUs after dozens of tests, certainly not Emerald Rapids. And that blog post is weird, their charts don't even have a key shown, it's like they bought a few CPUs and threw that quickly together to get people's hopes up. A real shame, I am still running DO droplets, but they are behind the times...

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by rixed »

UltraSane wrote: post #104
rr808 wrote: post #4

Still having your own hardware seems so much cheaper. Maybe even just for dev/uat environments? Every big corporate I have worked at has lower cost of capital than Amazon, and yet they want to move to AWS. I just dont understand it.

Everything I've read says that self-hosting doesn't become cheaper than AWS for companies until you reach $1-$3 million per month spending when all costs are accounted for. Then there is the highly overlooked aspect that a good API like AWS has lets your expensive admins actually get things done hundreds of times faster than how most self-hosted IT can do. It usually takes months to buy and install additional capacit…

> good API like AWS has lets your expensive admins actually get things done hundreds of times faster than how most self-hosted IT can do

Depends. APIs must take into account many more cases than our own specific use case, and I find we are often spending a lot of time going through unnecessary (for us) hoops. And that's leaving aside possible API changes.

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Post by UltraSane »

rixed wrote: post #116
UltraSane wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything I've read says that self-hosting doesn't become cheaper than AWS for companies until you reach $1-$3 million per month spending when all costs are accounted for. Then there is the highly overlooked aspect that a good API like AWS has lets your expensive admins actually get things done hundreds of times faster than how most self-hosted IT can do. It usually takes months to buy and install additional capacit…

> good API like AWS has lets your expensive admins actually get things done hundreds of times faster than how most self-hosted IT can do Depends. APIs must take into account many more cases than our own specific use case, and I find we are often spending a lot of time going through unnecessary (for us) hoops. And that's leaving aside possible API changes.

I'm having a hard time imagining a situation where an using an API is slower than not.

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

Aurornis wrote: post #23
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…

> My 4565p is a $500 cpu... 32 vcpus... racked in a datacenter. The machine cost under 2k. > The cloud provider charging $140 / mo for 3x less vcpus you break even in a couple months, it doesn't matter if it dies a few months later How do you calculate break even in a couple months if the machine costs $2,000 and you still have to pay colo fees? If your colo fees were $100 month you wouldn’t break even for over 4 yea…

minor point to say but I have seen in some locations colocation costs to be around $30-40 as well. $100 is usually reserved for say colocating within Hetzner for example (iirc)

Just as a rule of thumb, if your servers cost more than 1k$ per month or even 500$ maybe even, depending upon if you are okay with colocation and everything. I have found it to break even (more than even the cheapest say hetzner or similar actually so for GCP or anything which charge significantly more, maybe you should warrant a deeper analysis on what is better colocation or dedicated servers or for short burstable units maybe even vps)

Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

spockz wrote: post #105
satvikpendem wrote: post #69

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

Which OSS PaaS are there that are noteworthy? Or do you mean something like Kubernetes?

Coolify is usually loved by the community.

Dokploy is another good one.

Kubero seems nice for more kubernetes oriented tasks.

But I feel like if someone is having a single piece of hardware as the OP did. Kubernetes might not be of as much help and Coolify/Dokploy are so much simpler in that regards.

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