Dedicated 2 cores vs Shared 8 cores: Which is better?

rid

@Petey_Long said:

@rid said:

@Petey_Long said:

@rid said:

@Petey_Long said:
Don't know your use case but if you're not expecting to be pinning the cores (violating fair use) - I'd go Milan with zero hesitation.

I'm using the server for websites and Nextcloud file sharing.

Milan would be my recommendation!

Thank you for your recommendation.

And just so you're not taking information blindly without any reasoning (al

My reasoning: Nextcloud and websites aren't likely going to carry a heavy sustained load. With something like NGINX - you can utilize ALL the cores, thereby lowering the overall load . Given how many cores and how powerful they are - you'd notice much higher performance with the shared Milan's over the Dedicated Platinum and it's highly unlikely you'll have a sustained load that will put you in the danger zone with shared.

I'm using Cloudpanel as hosting control panel and it uses NGINX. It's good to know the info shared by you.

rid

@tdworz said:

@rid said:
I'm worried about Nextcloud because the files will be shared for downloading and if too many people start downloading at the same time, not sure how that will affect the server. Bandwidth for sure but any idea about the effects on CPU?

I doubt CPU will be a bottleneck just for downloads, assuming it's just the web server reading from disk. Maybe if there is some extra operation performed by Nextcloud (meaning PHP is significantly involved with every download). But you'll probably hit networking limits before CPU limits.

Thanks for the info. Good to know this.