[tylerjl]

This is hard because while, yes, some platform with less potential for jitter and/or noisy neighbors would help eliminate outside influence on the metrics, I think it's also valuable to benchmark these in a scenario that I would assume _most_ operators would run them in, which is a VPS situation and not bare-metal. FWIW, I did try really hard to eliminate some of the contamination in the results that would arise from running in a VPS by doing things like using the _same_ host reconfigured to avoid potential shifts in the underlying hypervisor, etc.

But I would certainly agree that, for the utmost accurate results, a bare-metal situation would probably be more accurate than what I have written.