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My spreadsheet for comparing host specs

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kat_fold

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#1

Hey folks, been tracking host specs in a spreadsheet for two years now and figured id share my template. Columns are price, ram, cpu cores, storage type, bandwidth, location, ipv4 cost, and a calculated value score. Heres a screenshot of my top ten from last month. Feel free to copy the structure or paste your own rows and ill merge them in 👍

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AZ

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4 #2

Where is the popcorn column?

Nadia59

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#3

Oh man I have something like this but its just a txt file with tabs and I never thought to do a value score thats genius actually ive been manually sorting by price per gb ram and its such a pain can you add a column for yearly renewal vs first term price cause thats where they get you

FlowSana

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4 #4

  • Suggest adding CPU passmark single-thread score for meaningful comparison.
  • Include virtualization type (KVM vs LXC) as it affects kernel module availability.
  • Track BGP session limits if you plan anycast.
  • My current dataset covers 47 providers across 12 PoPs.

Practical recommendation: publish this as a read-only page and accept PRs via Git to maintain version history.

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MA

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#5

The cheapest I found was $8/yr for 512mb but ipv4 was $2 extra so I passed. Definitely need that renewal column. My sheet is just provider names and prices in notepad lol. Anyone got a $10/yr deal with actual cpu and not openvz

LO

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4 #6

This is very good idea we make a test in my country with OVHcloud and Vultr both is very fast 😂 I will add my data tonight with brazil ping times someone should do south america column because alot of sheets forget us

svendeal

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6 #7
kat_fold said:
Price, ram, cpu cores, storage type, bandwidth, location, ipv4 cost, and a calculated value score

SNAPPED UP a Contabo €4/MO ARE YOU KIDDING last black friday. Was €6 before. Tracking shows Hetzner dropped from €15 to €9 for 1gb then killed the plan. My price history sheet goes back to 2021. Will dump it here

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haroldgsm

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#8

Does your value score weight CPU and RAM equally, or is one favoured?

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Bruno22

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#9

40 days but this is still useful.

haroldgsm said:
Does your value score weight CPU and RAM equally, or is one favoured?

I always wondered the same thing. On my end I ended up splitting it into two scores, one for CPU-heavy workloads and one for RAM-heavy, since a lot of providers skew cheap on one and expensive on the other. Makes it harder to compare but at least you know what you're actually paying for.

Did you ever add that renewal price column, kat_fold? That's the real killer for long term tracking

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FlowSana

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#10

Hey, this thread went quiet but I was just digging through old bookmarks and found it again

haroldgsm said:
Does your value score weight CPU and RAM equally, or is one favoured?

I ended up building something similar for my team and we weight RAM about 1.5x CPU for our use case, mostly because our workloads are memory-bound. Would be curious what kat_fold settled on if they ever updated this

Also Nadia59's point about renewal pricing is the real killer, we got stung by Contabo last year on that exact thing. First term looked amazing, year two was basically double.

Did anyone ever fork this into a shared doc or did it stay screenshot-only

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