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There are many colos that offer dedicated server rental/hosting. You can just google for colos in the region you're looking for. I found this one https://www

There are many colos that offer dedicated server rental/hosting. You can just google for colos in the region you're looking for. I found this one https://www.colocrossing.com/server/dedicated-servers/ https://www.colocrossing.com/server/dedicated-servers/

petcat 2y ago
I don't know anything about Colo Crossing (are they a reseller?) but I would bet their $60 per month 4-core Intel Xeons would outperform a $1,000 per month "compute optimized" EC2 server.
- fragmede 2y ago
  What benchmark would you like to use?
  - petcat 2y ago
    This blog is about doing video processing on the CPU, so something akin to that.
- phonon 2y ago
  For $1000 per month you can get a c8g.12xlarge (assuming you use some kind of savings plan).[0] That's 48 cores, 96 GB of RAM and 22.5+ Gbps networking. Of course you still need to pay for storage, egress etc., but you seem to be exaggerating a bit....they do offer a 44 core Broadwell/128 GB RAM option for $229 per month, so AWS is more like a 4x markup[1]....the C8g would likely be much faster at single threaded tasks though[2][3] [0]https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/c8g.12xlarge?region=us-east-1&os=linux&cost_duration=monthly&reserved_term=Standard.noUpfront https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/c8g.12xlarge?region=us-... [1]https://portal.colocrossing.com/register/order/service/480 https://portal.colocrossing.com/register/order/service/480 [2]https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8305329 https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8305329 [3]https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-xeon-e5-2699-v4 https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-xeon-e5-2699-...
  - petcat 2y ago
    > That's 48 cores That's not dedicated 48 cores, it's 48 "vCPUs". There are probably 1,000 other EC2 instances running on those cores stealing all the CPU cycles. You might get 4 cores of actual compute throughput. Which is what I was saying
    - phonon 2y ago
      That's not how it works, sorry. (Unless you use burstable instances, like T4g) You can run them at 100% as long as you like, and it has the same performance (minus a small virtualization overhead).
      - petcat 2y ago
        Are you telling me that my virtualized EC2 server is the only thing running on the physical hardware/CPU? There are no other virtualized EC2 servers sharing time on that hardware/CPU?
        phonon 2y ago
        If you are talking about regular EC2 (not T series, or Lambda, or Fargate etc.) you get the same performance (within say 5%) of the underlying hardware. If you're using a core, it's not shared with another user. The pricing validates this...the "metal" version of a server on AWS is the same price as the full regular EC2 version. In fact, you can even get a small discount with the -flex series, if you're willing to compromise slightly. (Small discount for 100% of performance 95% of the time).
        petcat 2y ago
        This seems pretty wild to me. Are you saying that I can submit instructions to the CPU and they will not be interleaved and the registers will not be swapped-out with instructions from other EC2 virtual server applications running on the same physical machine?

petcat 2y ago

I don't know anything about Colo Crossing (are they a reseller?) but I would bet their $60 per month 4-core Intel Xeons would outperform a $1,000 per month "compute optimized" EC2 server.

fragmede 2y ago
What benchmark would you like to use?
- petcat 2y ago
  This blog is about doing video processing on the CPU, so something akin to that.
phonon 2y ago
For $1000 per month you can get a c8g.12xlarge (assuming you use some kind of savings plan).[0] That's 48 cores, 96 GB of RAM and 22.5+ Gbps networking. Of course you still need to pay for storage, egress etc., but you seem to be exaggerating a bit....they do offer a 44 core Broadwell/128 GB RAM option for $229 per month, so AWS is more like a 4x markup[1]....the C8g would likely be much faster at single threaded tasks though[2][3] [0]https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/c8g.12xlarge?region=us-east-1&os=linux&cost_duration=monthly&reserved_term=Standard.noUpfront https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/c8g.12xlarge?region=us-... [1]https://portal.colocrossing.com/register/order/service/480 https://portal.colocrossing.com/register/order/service/480 [2]https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8305329 https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8305329 [3]https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-xeon-e5-2699-v4 https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-xeon-e5-2699-...
- petcat 2y ago
  > That's 48 cores That's not dedicated 48 cores, it's 48 "vCPUs". There are probably 1,000 other EC2 instances running on those cores stealing all the CPU cycles. You might get 4 cores of actual compute throughput. Which is what I was saying
  - phonon 2y ago
    That's not how it works, sorry. (Unless you use burstable instances, like T4g) You can run them at 100% as long as you like, and it has the same performance (minus a small virtualization overhead).
    - petcat 2y ago
      Are you telling me that my virtualized EC2 server is the only thing running on the physical hardware/CPU? There are no other virtualized EC2 servers sharing time on that hardware/CPU?
      - phonon 2y ago
        If you are talking about regular EC2 (not T series, or Lambda, or Fargate etc.) you get the same performance (within say 5%) of the underlying hardware. If you're using a core, it's not shared with another user. The pricing validates this...the "metal" version of a server on AWS is the same price as the full regular EC2 version. In fact, you can even get a small discount with the -flex series, if you're willing to compromise slightly. (Small discount for 100% of performance 95% of the time).
        petcat 2y ago
        This seems pretty wild to me. Are you saying that I can submit instructions to the CPU and they will not be interleaved and the registers will not be swapped-out with instructions from other EC2 virtual server applications running on the same physical machine?