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I don’t disagree but “cores” is not a good measure of computational power.
by cedws 1y ago
I don’t disagree but “cores” is not a good measure of computational power.
- christophilus 1y agoTrue, but the cores on a dedicated Hetzner box obliterate the cores on an EC2 machine every time I’ve tested them. So, if anything, it understates the massive performance gap.
- andersmurphy 1y agoHetzner also tends to have more modern SSDs with the latest nvme. Which can make a massive difference for your DB.
- Nextgrid 1y agoIt's less about the modernity of SSDs and more about a fundamental difference: all persistent storage on AWS is actually networked - it's exposed to you as NVME but it's actually on a SAN and all IO requests go over the network. You can get actual direct-attached SSDs on EC2 (and I'd expect performance to be on-par with Hetzner), but those are ephemeral and you lose them on reboot.
- andersmurphy 1y agoWow, that's crazy, I was wondering why the numbers I were seeing on AWS were so much worse. I assumed it was the drive modernity. But network makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the insight!