Ah – this problem was actually why I chose the IONOS VPS L. Previously I found better performance with the IONOS Data Center Designer, where I was also using a VPS. I’ve never experienced the Dedicated Core offering, which could potentially null this issue, but I believe the Designer VPS had faster NVMe and maybe higher per-core turbo.
The UI loading of the composer’s category selector is slow, but that encourages people to browse into the desired category first, IMHO.
Nice - I think we’re into the command line vs. UI discussion again 