- Intel Core i7-6700 - 32 GB - 2 x 480 GB Datacenter SSD - 1 GB/s - 20 TB traffic
Their VPS are even cheaper. And you can run a lot on this.
If you wanted to run same workloads on Aws it would cost you few hundred euro a month.
I see a silver lining to all this. At least maybe the silly "throw more horizontal scaling at it" will stop being a default response to all performance problems and people that are able to squeeze more processing out of the same hardware will be sought after again.
That CPU is ancient, though. Over a decade old. That DRAM is 2-channel DDR3.
This could be a good deal for someone, but entrusting your startup’s operations to a 10 year old slow computer in Germany instead of using EKS would be an extremely short sighted move. A startup should be developing software and shipping it quickly to validate the market, not pinching pennies to save the equivalent of a couple hours of developer salary.
Coincidentally so are the t3 / t3a instances on AWS that everyone loves to use especially for dev/staging environments
Not necessarily obvious failures, but subtle errors, memory problems (like this case without an ECC capable CPU) and little instabilities.
With cloud instances I can migrate to a new instance with a couple clicks if I want.
Trying to save a couple hundred euros per month on hosting costs needs to be balanced against the risks and extra developer time.
For personal projects these old instances can be an excellent deal though.
Also, if you don't want to provision software systems, you probably shouldn't use Kubernetes at all. Both this and compute are niche businesses and neither would rent a budget server anyway.
6700 should be DDR4 unless they're using some weird-ass setup.
But then I remembered that what AWS gives you is the same generation of CPU, just obfuscated.
GCP Also obfuscates it, but not as much: https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-m...
(note: skylake is 10 years old)
Depending on workload, this old CPU might be as slow as a 2 thread or even 1 thread current gen server.
Because those big systems are optimized for power efficiency. That Epyc is ~2.4W/core compared to ~16W/core for the old i7. It has a lower base clock and is Zen5c. If we cut the 8-core Ryzen 9850X3D's score in half, 4 Ryzen cores from the same generation but with a higher base clock and six times the L3 cache per core would be 20942. But it's also back up to 15W/core. The Epyc still has better performance per watt.
The newer cores are significantly more efficient. That doesn't mean they're unconditionally faster independent of all other variables.
I think you’re talking about something else. The comment above was about a machine that didn’t have 10TB of storage, 320GB RAM, or unlimited bandwidth.
If you find 320GB of RAM and unlimited bandwidth for 40 Euro monthly then send it over!
This is a rather baffling opinion to have. All cloud providers charge far more for a virtualized instance running on God knows what hardware. You are faced with a deal where you can run your software on bare metal, and you complain about... About what exactly?
https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator?dl=CjhDaVEyWWpJ...
The CPU is the same generation; https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-m...
Not too bad considering.