[dead]
Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
41–50 of 165 posts
Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
#42I 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…
You can go on OVH and get a dedicated server with 384 threads and a Turin cpu for $1147 a month. You have to pay $1147 for installation and the default has low ram and network speeds but even after upgrading those it's going to be 1/5 of what it would cost on public clouds.
Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
#43You can extract a lot of value from bare-metal servers from Hetzner but you need to put some effort initially to get them going. That being said, it is not really that difficult. And, frankly, it a lot more fun.
Could you explain the "some effort initially" part?
Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
#44[dead]
> I've seen too many "we'll just rack a few servers" projects turn into full-time infrastructure jobs
Really? How many?
Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
#45I 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…
"VCPUS" are a bit of scam in my experience. You usually don't get what the hardware (according to /proc/cpuinfo) is capable of.
Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> by 6 months already paid the machine. You originally said “a couple months” but now it’s 6 months and assumption of $0 collocation fees which isn’t realistic In my experience situations rarely call for precisely 32 cores for a fixed period of 3 years to support calculations like this anyway. We start with a small set of cloud servers and scale them up as traffic grows. Today’s tooling makes it easy to auto scale th…
Don't nit-pick the "couple". It was used casually - like to mean not terribly long time. So the 2-6 spread, while technically big, is still just a trifle. While I'm nit-picking; up thread is talking about a limited box for CI and you're talking about scaling up real business workloads. That's just like the difference between 2 and 6. Give it a rest. Everyone: run your scenarios and expectations in a spreadsheet and t…
yeah thanks for that i was just meaning a very fast return
Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
#47I 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.
Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
#48I 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.
Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
#49You can extract a lot of value from bare-metal servers from Hetzner but you need to put some effort initially to get them going. That being said, it is not really that difficult. And, frankly, it a lot more fun.
Could you explain the "some effort initially" part?
The usual bare metal lack of amenities, that's all.
Re: Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
#50[dead]
I’d really appreciate if you would avoid posting LLM generated comments here. Thanks.