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		wyager on Sept 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server ... Those Contabo VPSs are shockingly cheap. Seemingly several times cheaper than, say, vultr. How do they do it?

generalizations on Sept 8, 2021 | [–]

I could see a couple ways to make it work - use the NVME drives they mention as swap space to get cheaper, but lower perf RAM, and put multiple vCPUs on each core. Lower performance, but still exactly what they offered.

But that's my skepticism talking.

xfer on Sept 8, 2021 | [–]

Massive cpu steal and poor storage io performance.

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