[archerx]

I have been developing on ARM servers for a while. I use Raspberry Pis and Tinkerboards as dev and staging servers and push releases to an x86-64 server on digital ocean. With docker it has been pretty easy, docker-compose usually finds the right packages for the CPU and it works quite well. I am curious about maybe trying on of the ARM servers on Hertzner and see how it compares.

[PaoloBarbolini]

I've been trying their Arm servers for a while and I've noticed some differences in the colors in htop for Debian 12, as if there were a slight difference between the x86_64 and the aarch64 image. Other than that everything's going fine and I'm planning to use Arm for every server in the Falkenstein datacenter (the only one with Arm dedicated and cloud servers for now)

[archerx]

Nice, how’s the performance? The cheapest digitalocean x86 single core cpu is a lot faster than a quad core pi or tinkerbord. I know it’s not the same as an arm server cpu but how much difference is there?

[novakwok]

I've searched for Geekbench result: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1584694, it says DO-Premium-Intel 1 Processor, 1 Core, so I'm assuming it's the 7USD/mo plan from https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets#basic-droplets.

The score on Geekbench is Single-Core: 838,Multi-Core: 842.

While in our tests the cheapest ARM64 plan on Hetzner is CAX11 2Core, 4G RAM, about 5USD/mo, the Geekbench result is Single-Core: 1072,Multi-Core: 1921, so assuming it about 20% faster than DigitalOcean.

We've done the same test on Rpi4B too:

Processor : Cortex-A72

CPU cores : 4 @ 1500.0000 MHz

Score is Single-Core: 247,Multi-Core: 387

For your reference.

[archerx]

Nice, thanks for the reply!