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What is the difference between BareMetal C2M which offers 8 cores, 16GB memory, and 50GB of SSD storage for €17.99 vs GP1-XS which offers 4 AMD EPYC, 16GB memory, and 150GB of storage for €39.99? Isn't the BareMetal better because it is dedicated, yet it is less expensive?

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The C2M is Intel Atom based (Avoton). https://blog.scaleway.com/2016/c2-insanely-affordable-x64-se...

Ah thanks. Since my workload is more memory bound, might be ok with Atom.

Worth noting: ovh have stunningly good rates for RAM, on dirt cheap instances, and you just have to accept there'll be unplanned reboots and their support is, well, they're dirt cheap, it's minimal.

For things that suit those constraints, they're amazing value for money though.

Ovh "VPS Cloud RAM 3" is 30GB for €30 exVAT, is it cheap considering e.g. Hetzner's bare metal EX42 with 64GB for €34 exVAT?

No one beats Hetzner. Hands down

I used both Hetzner and Scaleway. I trust Hetzner way more tbh. With Scaleway we had several issues other commenters also mentioned: instances not rebooting, random freezes, instance types out of stock. In the meantime we have both bare metal and VPS servers on Hetzner that have years of uptime.

I love Hetzner but you have to compare like for like. The EX42 is a dedicated machine which is great for perf and HD space but bad for maintenance, flexibility and setup fees. It’s also desktop hardware so no ECC memory.

Hetzner does have cloud vps though e.g. CX51 32 gb 8 vcpu at 29 eur ex vat. So a bit cheaper but not as much DC location choice as you get with OVH.

The C2M appears to use an Intel Atom chip: https://denbeke.be/blog/servers/benchmarking-a-baremetal-sca... (which are not known for their raw performance)

The Avoton, though, isn't a typical Atom. It's not a high end Xeon, but is closer to them in performance than the anemic Atom processor most people think of. I think it was a disservice to call the Avoton processors "Atoms". At the time they were released, they were faster than, say, a 5 year old Xeon.

About 60 weeks ago I had to apply a mailing list patch on top of the most recent GCC master prior to the patch, so GCC would know -mnative for them. It was on the branch that is becoming GCC9. If it wasn't backported, I'll wish you luck getting decent perf out of them. I recall a double-digit boost in CPU perf compared to GCC7 at -O3 when only allowing the vectoe instructions of Avoton, but not being able to get full instruction scheduling optimization.

They are not slow though, I use them for e.g. irssi/toxic bouncers and such. Uptime is sufficient, if you have backups as you should have.

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