> It seems like the grandparent poster really should rent part of a co-located rack instead. For my use I need the fastest CPU + ram + IO I can get for as litt

> It seems like the grandparent poster really should rent part of a co-located rack instead. For my use I need the fastest CPU + ram + IO I can get for as little as possible. The network does not need to be the best because this is not serving user requests. I do not want to take the time to make my code run in parallel. An Intel Core i7 3770k with SSDs is the cheapest scaling I can get. I use the same machine as a workstation for coding. This setup saves me $180 a month at the cheapest dedicated host I could find + I have a blazing fast work station.