Determining whether my VPS needs any upgrades (generally)

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In my case, switching from x86 to ARM got me a config with more storage for the same price

With Hetzner, ARM servers are slightly less expensive than x86 for the same specs (vCPU, RAM, storage).

Notably, they seem to be faster (Discourse rebuild speed and page loading).

Sadly there’s no benchmarking for Discourse, but I recently did a build time comparison:

Provider	Price	Disk	CPU	GB RAM	Build time	Data Centers
Hetzner CX22 (x86)	€3.95	40GB	2	4	9m56s	DE, FI, SG, US (2)
Hetzner CAX11 (arm64)	€3.95	40GB	2	4	5m45s	DE, FI

Be aware that there’s no official ARM-compatible mail-receiver image.

See:

Does the mail-receiver work with arm?

It would certainly be possible to support mail-receiver on ARM systems. There’s nothing amd64-specific in there (or, at least, there wasn’t when I made it, and I can’t imagine any major changes would have been made to invalidate that assumption). It would just be a matter of the docker image maintainers making a build of the image for arm64, as they already do for amd64. Someone could also do an unofficial build and put it somewhere, along with instructions on the one-line change needed to th…