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jwr 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

> We also find bare metal to be a lot more performant in general

I measured this several years back and never looked at virtual servers again. Since CPU time isn't reserved (like RAM is), the performance is abysmal compared to real hardware.

https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-...

_mitterpach 3 months ago [–]

That’s a really good article, thank you for sharing. Has anything in the field changed since 2019, or is the situation still roughly the same?

jwr 3 months ago | [–]

I haven't benchmarked recently, but I believe the situation is roughly still the same. If anything, things might have gotten worse because of more overbooking going on.

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