Reintroduce High-Frequency CPUs
First, I must say I love Webdock, the additional tooling that is provided, the clear API, and also the transparency related to issues appearing and the speed at which issues are solved.
Now, unfortunately, I heard the Ryzen product line is discontinued. I think the Ryzen offering made Webdock very competitive. High-frequency CPUs and a sustainable hosting provider are a great combination.
Either having slow Xeons for an incredible price or having incredibly fast Ryzen for also an incredible price/value made Webdock stand out.
The new Epyc offering is somewhat in between those two but with pricing very similar to the former Ryzen plans (about 7% cheaper).
In my initial benchmarking, the Epyc servers unfortunately perform 30-50% slower than the Ryzen counterparts for WordPress/SQL workloads. The performance is also very close to Hetzner’s AMD offering now, which is offered for a much lower price and generally has better uptime in my experience.
I hope Webdock will reintroduce high-frequency CPUs, such as the high-frequency Epyc counterparts of Ryzen or other Ryzen CPUs (e.g. the 7900 or 9900 provide a lot of speed against relatively advantageous power usage, compared to top-of-the-line 7950x/9950x).
There are other sustainable providers out there who offer Ryzen hosting at similar price levels, but they are unfortunately not as catered to developers as Webdock. So I really would like Webdock to offer high-frequency plans again.
Addendum: some benchmark data, benchmarked on Xeon 2c/4GB, Epyc 2c/4gb and Ryzen 2c/4gb, using the default WordPress installation
WordPress Post Query Test
Inserting, Querying, Deleting 10000 posts
Ryzen: 20.9 seconds
Epyc: 30.7 seconds
Xeon: 116,7 seconds
WordPress Benchmark Plugin - Test PHP, SQL, Disk and Network Performance
Ryzen: 9.4 overall score (PHP, SQL, File & Network tests are all significantly faster)
Epyc: 7.6 score
Xeon: 7.4 score (SQL and PHP are slower than Epyc here, the rest is similar)
WordPress Performance Tester - WordPress Benchmark Plugin
Ryzen: 6.003 score (lower is better)
Epyc: 9.278 score
Xeon: 10.399 score
h2load load tester - requests per second the server can handle
Ryzen: 83.79 requests / second
Epyc: 65.55 requests / second
Xeon: 35.27 requests / second
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Arni Johannesson
Nov 7, 2024
Hello :)
A facet of Epyc which is being neglected a bit in your numbers here is that on those systems we can provide a lot more RAM per instance (as that’s the real problem with consumer CPUs like Ryzen) and that those systems are true multi-thread beasts, outperforming Ryzen by up to 45% on multithreaded workloads.
With that said, we will either be launching newer generation Epyc OR a new lineup of Ryzen in the beginning of next year. So don’t worry, this is coming back. The reason we don’t have it on the shelves now: We simply sold out, and did not want to invest further into the - now legacy - Ryzen systems which due to low RAM constraints were being very inefficient in terms of customer density and rack space. If Ryzen comes back, it will be on the latest gen and on higher density units where we can get the now-possible 256Gigs of ram per host which is possible on DDR5. So yes, those will be beastly systems if/when we go that route :)
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this post. Much appreciated.!!