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by gcp 3492 days ago
Their pricing looks insane? Like an order of magnitude less than DO, OVH, ...

Edit: Looks like it's because they're using Atom and ARM based servers.

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What's that mean for the common folk? Are they slower?
Yes. Slow CPUs.
The Atom servers appear to be Avoton Atoms[1], probably a C2550 or similar. While they aren't as high end as a typical Xeon, they aren't as terrible as the older Atom cpu. See this chart: https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Inte...

[1]https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/54859/Avoton