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Disclosure: I work on VMs at Google Compute Engine :)

This was a really, really good write-up. I appreciated the breadth of VMs tested and the spread of benchmarks. A few random observations:

1. Turin is a beast.

2. The data on price-performance makes Hetzner look really fantastic, especially for small scale projects where region placement doesn’t matter much and big bursty scaling isn’t required.

3. I think the first ever cloud VM I ever provisioned was on DigitalOcean. I was surprised at how old their fleet was, but I guess they have some limited Emerald Rapids offerings now: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-5th-gen-xeon-p...

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Huh, I have not been able to provision any newer CPUs after dozens of tests, certainly not Emerald Rapids. And that blog post is weird, their charts don't even have a key shown, it's like they bought a few CPUs and threw that quickly together to get people's hopes up. A real shame, I am still running DO droplets, but they are behind the times...

Hetzner really shines with their dedicated stuff.

Yeah, a $45 hetzner box would probably be at the top of all these charts, but it's a little more work to provision.

If only they offered dedicated in the US.

There are plenty of other dedicated server providers that do.

Which comparable US dedicated server providers do you prefer?

OVH has dedicated in USA and Canada

I've read several reports from customers saying that their customer service is really bad. Difficult to know with online reviews of course. Does anyone have positive stories to share? I am looking at Australian hosts specifically and Hetzner doesn't have any data centers here.

We use them heavily for test boxes and running experiments. Standard off-the-shelf machines are provisioned almost instantly, and never had any problems.

More custom stuff (eg 100Gb/s NICs) takes a bit longer, but they've always been super responsive and quick to sort out any issues!

The price / performance you get from something like their AX162 is just crazy, although unfortunately with the whole RAM / NVMe shortage the setup fee has gone up quite a lot.

Using them for production for years, never dissapointed.

What you should be aware of is their new exploration of s3 storage. I mean, the s3 works and everything but it's still too eaely - the servers are kind of slow and sometimes fail to upload/download. They are still tuning out the storage architecture. The api key management is kind of too primitive (although much more headache free than configuring aws), and the online file browser is lacking

But for vps servers - they are battletested veterans

I tend to mostly use dedicated servers from Hetzner for my own projects and for my client's projects. Whenever they explicitly want US servers, I tend to go with Vultr's dedicated servers which been serving us well for many years.

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