[throwaway81523]

TFA describes the E3-1230 as an 8 core server when it is actually a 4 core server with 8 threads. That means the ARM vs x86 per-core performance comparisons are off by a factor of 2. I stopped reading when I noticed that. For cheap sustained compute, it's hard to beat a Hetzner auction dedi.

[novakwok]

Thanks for pointing out, I've made some updates on blog post to make the description more accurate.

[ksec]

This has always been the case with vCPU. But many didn't know vCPU in many cases means thread and not Core.