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user: gsgreen created: 2026-04-16 karma: 14 Working on Webbynode — dataset-driven VPS benchmarking and network analysis. submissions: 0 points | 0 comments Same Provider. Same $78 Plan. One Hetzner Region Scored 92. Another Scored 14 1 points | 2 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments We found a $60 Hetzner VM competing with AWS and Google VMs over $500/mo 11 points | 5 comments 0 points | 0 comments Why does the exact same Hetzner VM cost $60 in Germany and $119 in Singapore? 2 points | 1 comments 0 points | 0 comments $560 AWS m6i.4xlarge VM refused to read the room 4 points | 1 comments Our Google Cloud dataset keeps questioning what a $300 VM buys 1 points | 1 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments We benchmarked Google Cloud's $512 VM – the speed wasn't the interesting part 10 points | 6 comments 0 points | 0 comments One week later, the same AWS t3.large VM changed personalities again 2 points | 1 comments An Asia→Europe Pattern Appeared During Repeated Google Cloud Benchmarks 1 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments We reran this Google Cloud N2 benchmark 6 times over 2 weeks. It barely budged 1 points | 1 comments 0 points | 0 comments Everyone thinks AWS t3.large is calm. 3 benchmark runs may change things 1 points | 1 comments We're seeing distinct runtime lineages emerge inside the same cloud plan/region 1 points | 0 comments We kept getting different "personalities" from the same cloud VM SKU 1 points | 0 comments