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Two things: use dedicated server hardware instead of VPS or even hosted solutions. And be aware of the error bars and tweaking of consumer hardware.

You can buy editions of consumer hardware with better performance for overclocking, these generally come at a slightly higher clock and were selected to be able to handle this clock. You can use the overclocking settings in the boot menu to restrict the performance and the slimmer error bars on the selected edition of cpus to ensure a slimmer error bar on your own research. (Might differ per model and build if there are actual hardware differences https://www.windowscentral.com/amd-ryzen-which-processor-bes... ).

On servers you have a wider range of options including options for fixed power consumption and performance to ensure longer lifetimes. Seeing that most of your software will be running on servers its the metric which you should care about rather than a metric gained from benchmarking on consumer hardware. You also have much stricter error bars on server hardware.

TL;DR: Be sure to look into the error bars on performance metrics for your cpu.