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(Quote) It's €64 but yeah, dollar has fallen compared to euro (zomg, 1.18 $/€), maybe due to coronavirus. So €64 is over $75. Also remember that disks are in "decimal" terabytes (1e12 bytes) which are about 0.9 TiB. The difference is en…
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(Quote) Thanks for spotting that. Those auction servers have gotten considerably cheaper in the past few months. Maybe I should retire mine and switch to one of those, to either save a little $$ or get more storage. I didn't realize the new C14 c…
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Happy independent day but I was hoping I'd see some servers located in Pakistan in the offer! Maybe someday.
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I've used them as general beataround vps and scrapers in the past, and also as vpn endpoints. Really they can do almost anything a native ipv4 vps of similar size can. But I kept wanting more disk space. I did use one of Neoon's to experiment wit…
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(Quote) I can do both but sometimes get a little confused switching between them. Org-mode links are more flexible since they can refer to local files or anchors in them, possibly execute code, or whatever. You can export org files into markdown t…
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org-mode.org does everything I could want. But really, a plain text file isn't so bad either. Org-mode's main shortcoming is no smartphone integration to speak of, but you didn't mention wanting that. I do everything on a laptop these days, so th…
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When I think of deep discount I think of chicagovps back in the day, summer hosts, contabo etc. Bad stuff. Their thing was trying to sell ridiculous amounts of resources in the $7 limit or lower. It was unsustainable, involved lots of overallocat…
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Once you're big and cloudy, preemptable (GCS) or spot (AWS) seems like an important product. You have to price the regular VM's high enough that supply exceeds demand and there is always stock available. But that means you have idle hardware most …
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I'd rather not have "interesting stuff" "pulled" from the cest pit. The idea is that it's somewhat like an ephemeral live conversation or maybe a newspaper, that is stale after a day or two. I don't know about others but I've n…
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I read and post to it now and then. I'd prefer keeping it as-is on the "not broken, don't fix" principle. I understand the need for search traffic to grow a community and I'm board with it but at the same time I'd rather stay out of Goog…
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Besides those mentioned, back in the day there was Rackspace. I don't know if they are still around or significant. I also think of the "big" providers as AWS, GCS and the like. I couldn't see myself using them for any LES type of appli…
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Yeah I might try Finland sometime but these things are too inconsistent and not that fast in the first place. I also wonder what happens in terms of throttling if you do a long-running compute task. The product is less interesting than I'd hoped. …
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I just ran the test on the 16 vcore Epyc instance. Multicore cpu was 5694 which I guess is disappointing since it's less than 10x the single core speed. It still beats the 8 vcore Intel instance by a fair amount. It's less than half the speed of …
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outdated, please delete.
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Nice to hear about the referral program! Seems like everyone has that now. The splash screen for the cloud console says that the referred customer's credits have to be used by the end of the next month (which is unclear wording). But the referrals…
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(Quote) I have to wonder whether that flag really works under virtualization. It's sometimes doubtful even on bare metal, because of the many layers of caches in the controller, the drive, etc.
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Hmm, I'd want to see how that test works... maybe it is influenced somehow by caching. Otherwise, 16k/s = wow ;).
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I don't think you can add the read and write iops/sec together and report the total as meaning anything. Averaging them together makes more sense. 7000+/s is still very fast for a cheap vps. I thought it was more usual to measure iops at 512 by…
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Well the Nurnberg one was at 11:41 pm so maybe you could try earlier in the day. I don't have a particular time in mind, just wonder whether the machines are more heavily loaded during the day or evening or if they are consistent. I'd also be inte…
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Interesting, same hardware at all 3 locations, with that much difference between benchmarks. Are you up for repeating them at a different time of day?
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(Quote) Oh lol, I didn't even notice. Heh. And come to think of it the Epyc 7502P has 32 cores, though with lower clock speed (2.5 ghz base instead of 2.8 ghz). The Hetzner AX161 has it at 109 euro (with 128GB ram and also no disk), or 256GB it l…
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The dual cpu version (32 cores) is more interesting imho. Just $50 more for the 2nd cpu. The 16 core one probably beats the 16 core E5-26xx that are available cheaply now, but maybe not enough to warrant the cost difference. OTOH, with 32 cores, …
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Oh thanks, I looked only at the smallest and biggest Hetzner (both Intel) and didn't notice that the 2nd and 3rd were Epyc. There is quite a discrepancy in speed between the 2nd and 3rd. I wonder what is up with that. I'd be interested in seeing …