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They don’t and currently work on Linux. It just might turn out to be much cheaper to use this one

A dedicated x86 machine with equivalent performance for those two tasks is a lot more expensive.

(if i get it correctly it's mostly cause it's a gpu bound task? (hardware acceleration of the browser engine?)) Back in 2017 hetzner offered gtx1080s for around 70€ a month with 64gb ram and and a 4+ghz quad Intel CPU, n 2x 512gb ssd

Im sure these days it's not hard enough to find smth with equilavent processing power in that price range

Maybe even direct contact with hetzner could help you out these days(they stopped offering them cause of abuse)

And if it's not a gpu bound task but badly concurrently cpu tasks Then maybe a game server specific dedicated hosting (they use consumer CPUs with uo to 5+ghz single core performance) wouldn't also be a lot of money

N if its a good concurrency task then the amd CPU offering of hetzner beats all(high memory, insanely fast iops, lots of core) , and has a offering for 5950x these days

5950x is 117€ / month on Hetzner.

The M1 actually beats it in single core performance, and is quite a bit faster at running JavaScript for that headless browser due to design optimizations.

But they could have a preference for the platform, no?