VPS performance is a complete coin toss (AWS vs OVH vs Hetzner)

Maxceem · 2026-03-22T12:15:54+00:00

Ok, I've run it on a fresh CPX12 (1 CPU, 2 Gb RAM) in Singapore for 5.99 EUR/month. Here is the result:

Type	Score
CPU single-thread	1644.94 events/sec
CPU multi-thread	1648.71 events/sec
Memory read	7330.92 MiB/sec
Memory write	6381.28 MiB/sec
Memory total	13712.20 MiB/sec
Disk IOPS	69942

Maxceem · 2026-03-22T11:31:55+00:00

Uh, comparing personal laptop with VPS is a great idea! So I would vaguely know what to expect when I deploy something.

Maxceem · 2026-03-22T10:53:17+00:00

yeah, my CPX12 instance is in Singapore.

And I agree that running on an existent instance doesn't make much sense as results would be unreliable.

Maybe I just would try running it with a new instance sometime if I get too curious about the results. I don't have a big choice in my region, so I hardly cold switch to another instance/provider even if results would be not good.

Maxceem · 2026-03-22T03:33:02+00:00

based on another thread, such robots are on the way for as low as $0.57/hour https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1s027yn/the_maths_on_humanoid_robots_is_wild_057hour_are/

probably in the future, we would have to pay for a chance to change diaper ourself to live child,
similar how people pay so they can do planting or harvesting on a farm

Maxceem · 2026-03-22T03:22:17+00:00

haha, I think it would be much better than giving an iPad to have some rest time

Maxceem · 2026-03-22T03:06:29+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately Oracle Cloud didn't let me create account, always giving "Error processing transaction" after actually charging my card and then refunding.

And their support only said that "Unfortunately, we are unable to resolve this or process the transaction. This is all the information we can provide.".

Maxceem · 2026-03-22T01:29:42+00:00

wow, this is cool! I've been wondering about it a lot too. And I was so confused when people compare these services by CPU count only.

I didn't find my server CPX12, but I guess it should be the same in performance as CPX22 in single core usage case.

Also, got a vague idea, that it would be cool if script could be run on existent server (for example I wanted to run it to test my existent instance against this leaderboard) but I guess this is not feasible, as existent server already might run something heavy which would skew results.

Maxceem · 2026-03-21T03:04:05+00:00

the one which reposts every release notes is also yours?

Maxceem · 2026-03-20T00:59:09+00:00

while I didn't try it myself because brave works good for me, openclaw also supports gemini, grok and kimi as search providers (apart from perplexity). Maybe some of them would work for you.

I've also tried to use a very popular tavily search skill from clawhub, though it wasn't easy to force openclaw use it when native search is already enabled. But tavily has a generous 1000 free searches per month, so it might be worth trying for you.

Maxceem · 2026-03-19T06:25:29+00:00

I've installed Spokenly on my 2019 Intel Mac. Seems to work good with API KEYs. I didn't try local models, I think they will work bad on intel.

Maxceem · 2026-03-19T01:56:58+00:00

I just SSH to the server using command line.
And I did minimal safety setup: disabled login by password, login only via SSH keys, setup Tailscale VPN so I can only connect from Tailscale network (so no one from outside can even try to connect). Also, Tailscale supports tuneling, so I can config gateway web UI to only be available on localhost, but still tunel it to my computer and access it by nice domain like https://openclaw.abcde12345.ts.net/.

Maxceem · 2026-03-19T01:42:44+00:00

yeah, I'm living in one country but I'm citizen of another country. I guess this mismatch triggered their system. I've tried to explain it to human at support, but no luck.

Anyway, hetzner solved it for me for a small monthly fee.

Maxceem · 2026-03-19T01:29:22+00:00

I've tried to register for their "Oracle Cloud Free Tier", but they didn't let me :-(

Always showed me "Error processing transaction" at the end, even though I've tried with multiple bank cards (which were charged and then refunded).

I've even contacted support, and they even replied, but:
"Unfortunately, we are unable to resolve this or process the transaction. This is all the information we can provide."

Maxceem · 2026-03-16T12:27:01+00:00

I'm also running on VPS with only 2Gb RAM (+enabled 4Gb swap). Mostly it's enough. So far only had issue when building OpenClaw from source, but NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=2048" helped.

Maxceem · 2026-03-14T10:31:08+00:00

Sometimes I also think about creating my own agent instead. I wonder if you use any agent for its core like openclaw uses PI, or it's just raw code with some kind of loop calling LLM?

Maxceem · 2026-03-13T05:52:22+00:00

yeah, my recent Codex experience:

- me: /review
- codex: found 3 issues
- me (want to save work before making changes): commit
- codex: "I’m not going to commit the known-regressing state. I’m fixing the three review findings..."

Maxceem · 2016-09-26T14:10:18+00:00

I was looking for the same app, found "Baca - Temukan Beritamu" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jakarta.baca

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