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How many days-per-month/hours-per-day/minutes-per-hour do you hammer the CPU? For example, if you only need it for 4 hours per weekday, that's around 80 hours per month => $128/mo for 36 Xeon E5-2666 v3 cores and 60 GB RAM on AWS (c4.8xlarge), which is probably cheaper than getting a dedicated server for the full month (assuming you don't need too much storage space / network bandwidth). But if it's more than 6+ hours per weekday then OVH is cheaper.
A dedicated dual e5-2666 v3 is about 25k passmark or < 3x an i7-3770 which is 30 euro/month at Hetzner. But I think those 36 "cores" are more likely vcores, i.e. hardware threads, so you're back in i7 or maybe Ryzen territory. AWS has many useful services but they're way more expensive than LET stuff.
Nocix and others have low priced large boxes (dual E5) if that's really what you require. But scaling has better long-term potential
Where is this offer? Cheapest I can find it is 35 euro
Economies of scale. They get hardware cheaper by buying in bulk, they operate their own data center which drives down costs, and dedicated servers also require little to no support (because people who get them usually know what they're doing). Labor costs are also lower in Germany/France compared to the US. After a year or two, the hardware is paid off and it starts making money.
At least that's how I think it works, I could be totally wrong here as I don't work in the hosting industry.
I just checked their ToS and you can max out the cores as much as you want - however, these are still logical and not physical cores, so even if you get 75% of the real core (which is probably optimistic), the passmark score is roughly 8500 (also there's some virtualization overhead, so realistically something around 7500-8000). Hetzner's Ryzen 1700X has a passmark score of 14600, but also costs ~20 euros more (plus one time setup fee).
https://www.netcup.de/vserver/#features
I havd netcup , would you please give me a benchmark script to try ?
The Passmark tool only supports Windows, but I guess you could use the Phoronix Test Suite, or anything else that has 1700X results published.
Looking at everyone's suggestions.. it looks like Hetzner and Kimsufi are the only one that offers real cores.. am I wrong? Is it worth chasing the real cores ? I'm guessing I'm trying to get the best computation power bang for the buck.