Server Specs 1 Core Equivalent to

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Can you clarify what does 1 Core equate to?Is it 100% of a Core in a Quad Core machine or is it shared with multiple Droplets?If so how can we know what % of Cores are allotted to what Droplets?

tomopen · Answer

New customer here prior to testing my first DO server. I’m currently a Linode customer for many active months. I found this thread also looking for an understanding on how to judge what CPU resources I could count on here. The above @Moisey post suggest to test and compare in order to make an informed decision. However the same issue that was brought up a year ago still stands imo. What performance I get this afternoon can not give me a minimum baseline on what I can count on tonight or tomorrow.

Before moving to Linode I was testing other hosting companies with the same script under controlled conditions that provided a real world performance level for what I do. It was interesting that often what appeared to be the best deals of advertised RAM, CPU, Port Speed, etc. were often poor performers when comparing the low costs to the actual productivity. Linode did not at first glance appear to be of the best value when comparing strictly the advertised resources. However the bottom line was my productivity increased to where it has proven to be a real value. A large part of this was I could count on a set of resources that would never drop below a known amount.

This post is not meant to be an advertisement for the competition or to knock DO. It is another vote that without a known minimum performance level it will make it very difficult to considering scaling here. I fully intend to test extensively. Unfortunately the way my scripts run I need a known minimum performance level. Otherwise I will be too conservative and the value goes down, crash or I become a “noisy neighbor”. This would make it difficult to consider DO for a large part of my hosting needs.

BTW I found DO by hearing overwhelming positive reviews on other forums. The # of people made it impossible not to give this a try. However I think most of those people have different needs than me. They spin up servers quickly to test a few scripts and then are done before needed again. I differ in that I need scripts to run weeks without interruption.

I hope to post back here with my experience. I would love for the unknown minimum CPU resources to be a non issue.

rogerdpack · Answer

I typically get > 95% of one cpu for my $5 instance (based on tops “st” measure which is sometimes 2, typically 0 (and rarely it will hit 20)).
Feels like a full core to me! You can try it out yourself though…I have almost never encountered problems where I seem to get much less than 1 core.
FWIW.

mike108185 · Answer

@rogerdpack , I wonder if that’s 95% of your virtual cpu?

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