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For heavy cpu I gave up on VPS a long time ago and just use dedis. The Hetzner auction is hard to beat. Netcup RS might come close or edge it out, but not by enough to outweigh what I see as the adv

Perf/$ Netcup is far better than BuyVM, thus no alternative to Netcup - at least for me.

Netcup

I don't think that netcup's are true dedicated hardware cpu cores (threads).

Netcup is half the price (even on a monthly contract).

Pet theory: I suspect this is why Netcup now majorly advertises the 'stay in germany' angle.

I have one question to community about netcup.

Netcup G8 root servers used to perform much better when first announced but not any more.

@pike, your results for the two dedi. cores look pretty good compared to my Netcup RS 1000 G8 which also has two dedi. cores.

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Would like to run Geekbench on my Netcup Rootserver but can't figure out how to do it.

netcup has some sort of hourly, and @farnox supports hourly payments too.

So my options for io-sensitive apps are either : add an SSD (or 2) to HDD-dedi (OR) buy a Netcup SSD Rootserver .

* I use Hetzner 32 GB Remote Desktop with Mint Linux Desktop for Remote desktop, 2 x 1 TB, where I keep running my Dockers, Kubernetes, Mesos, Machine Learning algorithms, Scala, Spark, Akka, Cassandr

I used one of the NetCup SSD root servers with Windows Server for RDP and was very happy. It was used for some coding, development environment, FTP file transfer station and for some basic browsing.

* NetCup

So renting seems like a good idea, specially when you get good pricing from netcup or hetzner.

I ran some tasks on an 8-core 32gb instance a few months back and got close to 100% cpu utilization, i.e. equivalent to 8 dedicated cores (not threads) for around 3 hours. I guess it was too good to

Argh. netcup billing is confusing.