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