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Benchmark comparison—YABS honesty check, who fakes?

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tallinnying

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Night Shift

7 #1

So I was running yabs at 3am again (idk why I do this) and noticed something weird

Contabo and OVHcloud both reported exact same Geekbench 6 scores. Down to the single-core decimal. Not similar—identical. 1847.3.

Thought I was hallucinating. Ran it three more times. Same.

Anyway here's my conspiracy board so far:

provider    single    multi    yabs date
Contabo   1847.3    5231.0   2026-04-12
OVHcloud   1847.3    5231.0   2026-04-15
Hetzner  1846.8    5229.4   2026-04-10
InterServer     1847.1    5230.2   2026-04-17

The variance is suspiciously tight. Like, same stepping, same bios, same everything. Either they're all buying identical supermicro batches... or

Anyone else seeing this? I started scraping whois and the Contabo OVHcloud Hetzner domains all registered within 6 weeks of each other. Different privacy services but same registrar.

Idk maybe I'm losing it. Sleep deprivation and grep do strange things to a person.

builds at 3AM, sleeps at noon
pavel_train

Member

#2

Nice catch | grep identical | sort -u | wc -l | four providers one score | cat brain says pattern | not coincidence | pipeline the whois | dig deeper | whois contabo.com | whois ovhcloud.com | same street address different suite numbers | same datacenter different paint | one landlord many masks | sed 's/competition/reseller/g' | prices only go up | grep insight | sort -u | wc -l | one

PA

Member

#3

Same street address different suite numbers is the bit that got me

Zurich1984

Member

#4

Prices only go up and so does deception

Checked ARIN. Contabo, OVHcloud, Hetzner all announcing from same /22. Different SWIPs but same upstream ASN. /24 will cost you a kidney and apparently your ability to tell providers apart

Market consolidation dressed as competition. Happens every cycle. Wait for the "we're excited to announce our merger" post in 8 months

/24 for sale. No lowballs.
olespete

Member

Trust No One

#5

Very same score! Very suspicious! Very not coincidence!

airgapped, encrypted, faraday'd, still worried
BI

Member

#6

I had the same identical score thing with two "different" hosts last year

olespete

Member

Trust No One

#7

Same /22 but different SWIPs? That's not "competition" that's accounting fiction.

airgapped, encrypted, faraday'd, still worried

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