My spreadsheet for comparing host specs

kat_fold · 2025-08-22T16:27:02+00:00

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 calculat...

General Discussion by kat_fold 1y ago 11 replies 4.2K views

Guadalajara37

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3mo ago · edited

#11

Hey @kat_fold, did you ever end up adding that yearly renewal column? I've been burned by Contabo's intro pricing twice now and a public sheet with that data would save me some headaches

Also curious if your value score factors in storage IOPS at all or just raw capacity, since some of these budget hosts are still on ancient SATA pools

haroldgsm

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2mo ago

#12

I'm still curious about this — did anyone end up merging their data in? My own sheet got unwieldy and I gave up around March.

Guadalajara37 said:

Hey @kat_fold, did you ever end up adding that yearly renewal column?

I never got an answer to my own question and it still bugs me. For what I do RAM matters way more than cores so I'd want to bias it, but I don't know if kat_fold built in any sliders.

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