So it would be great if you could filter for that on serverhunter to paint a fair(er) picture, because a few hosters give dedicated cores by default.
When we tried benchmarks on the Hetzner Cloud we found that some servers had as low as 10% max CPU on a crowded host server, which makes sense as to why they charge 8 times more for dedicated CPU cores.
Even with the same provider, there can be massive differences between VPSs, it just depends whether you end up on an idle host node with no noisy neighbors or one where everyone is busy mining their favorite cryptocurrency.
Regardless, we do understand the need for accurate performance numbers, so this is something we will explore further in the near future.
If you have any ideas, please let me know. :)
I think it's safe to assume that those that don't have this information available at least somewhere, are shared cores by default?
You'll see that while the amount CPU cores will usually be less, they are dedicated to you and not shared with other VPSs.
Hope this helps! :)
Go with Xen or KVM and avoid all that.
And yes,they are cheap and they are very reliable, we use them a lot.