3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS to Hetzner

Re:3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS... by chubot on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:30AM (#45616590)

Does anyone have experience with say Linode and Digital Ocean performance versus AWS and GCE?

They still use VMs, but as far as I know they have simple reserved instances, not “cloud”-like weather?

Is the performance better and more predictable on large VPSes?

(edit: I guess a big difference is that VPS can have local NVMe that is persistent, whrereas EC2 local disk is ephemeral? )

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Re:3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS... by pton_xd on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:53AM (#45616851)

I can't speak to Linode but in my experience the Digital Ocean VM performance is quite bad compared to bare metal offerings like Hetzner, OVH, etc. It's basically comparable to AWS, only a bit cheaper.

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Re:3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS... by matt-p on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:37AM (#45617993)

It's essentially the same product, but you do get lower disk latency. Best performance is always going to be a dedicated server which in the US seem to start around $80-100/month (just checking on serversearcher.com), DO and so on do provide a "dedicated cpu" product if that's too much.

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Re:3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS... by inapis on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:50AM (#45616826)

No. DO can be equally noisy but I've always tried their regular instances and not their premium AMD/Intel ones.

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