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Does DO or Vultr even offer the HPC instances AWS does? 96 CPU, 384GB, etc? Let's not even mention storage or networking.



Such configurations sadly aren't relevant for me, because neither are any of my workloads that demanding, nor could I ever afford to rent such servers anyways. At that point, one might as well make the argument for forking over money towards the more "enterprise" platforms.

However, out of curiosity, I actually checked all of the mentioned platforms, to figure out where they cap out.

Cloud services:

  Contabo - CLOUD VDS XXL has 12 CPU and 96 GB of RAM, 149 euros/month
  Hetzner - CCX62 has 48 CPU and 192 GB of RAM, 532 euros/month
  DigitalOcean - caps out at around 32 CPU and 256 GB of RAM, 2096 euros/month
  Scaleway - ENT1-2XL has 96 CPU and 384 GB of RAM, 2576 euros/month
  Vultr - caps out at around 96 CPU and 255 GB of RAM, 3840 euros/month
Dedicated servers:

  Contabo - AMD EPYC 32 Cores has 32 CPU and 256 GB of RAM, 249 euros/month
  Hetzner - AX161 has 32 CPU and 1024 GB of RAM, 833 euros/month
  Scaleway - EM-T210E-NVME has 128 CPU and 2048 GB of RAM, 2625 euros/month
  Vultr - NVIDIA A100 has 96 CPU and 960 GB of RAM, 14000 euros/month
So to answer that question, yes, most of the platforms out there have more performant offerings, while the prices and details vary. It's great that these alternatives exist, even if the needs of most people will be more modest.

For example, my hybrid container cluster with 6 nodes has 13 CPU cores in and a total of 54 GB of RAM and even that's with room for growth, hosting basically everything that I need for about 30 euros a month. Most people out there will probably care about finding ways to cheaply run their WordPress site or something, as opposed to scaling way up.

That's kind of the beauty of the current market - there's something for everyone out there!




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