Ask HN: Cheap and fast (just CPU) dedicated server?

7 points by tlogan ↗ HN
We need a server to do some very CPU intensive data processing and we are looking for provider which has the best CPU/cost ratio.

The server does not need to have a lot of memory, fast disk or anything like that: we just care about CPU speed.

The data is public so security is also not a issue.

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Hetzner hands down.
maybe "Amazon EC2 Spot Instances"

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/

#"Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large" 88 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon E5-2670, eight-core "Sandy Bridge" architecture)

--> variable price - now $0.75 per hour = ( US EAST )

#"Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large" 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture)

--> variable price - now $0.208 per hour ( US EAST )

Check out the datashack dedicated server Page. The out of stock servers are great deals that pop up for a few hours at a time before selling out.