[preserves]

Disclosure: I work on VMs at Google Compute Engine :)

This was a really, really good write-up. I appreciated the breadth of VMs tested and the spread of benchmarks. A few random observations:

1. Turin is a beast.

2. The data on price-performance makes Hetzner look really fantastic, especially for small scale projects where region placement doesn’t matter much and big bursty scaling isn’t required.

3. I think the first ever cloud VM I ever provisioned was on DigitalOcean. I was surprised at how old their fleet was, but I guess they have some limited Emerald Rapids offerings now: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-5th-gen-xeon-p...

[dkechag]

Huh, I have not been able to provision any newer CPUs after dozens of tests, certainly not Emerald Rapids. And that blog post is weird, their charts don't even have a key shown, it's like they bought a few CPUs and threw that quickly together to get people's hopes up. A real shame, I am still running DO droplets, but they are behind the times...

[tehlike]

Hetzner really shines with their dedicated stuff.

[winrid]

Yeah, a $45 hetzner box would probably be at the top of all these charts, but it's a little more work to provision.

[allset_]

If only they offered dedicated in the US.

[joshmn]

There are plenty of other dedicated server providers that do.

[nekitamo]

Which comparable US dedicated server providers do you prefer?

[embedding-shape]

I tend to mostly use dedicated servers from Hetzner for my own projects and for my client's projects. Whenever they explicitly want US servers, I tend to go with Vultr's dedicated servers which been serving us well for many years.

[veeti]

OVH has dedicated in USA and Canada

[scorpioxy]

I've read several reports from customers saying that their customer service is really bad. Difficult to know with online reviews of course. Does anyone have positive stories to share? I am looking at Australian hosts specifically and Hetzner doesn't have any data centers here.