# Digital Ocean "High CPU" droplets **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-high-cpu-droplets/64452 **Category:** Self-hosting **Tags:** hosting **Created:** [June 13, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-high-cpu-droplets/64452 "2017-06-13T20:06:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror) #### Post date: [June 13, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-high-cpu-droplets/64452/4 "2017-06-13T20:27:21Z")
Honestly your best bet is Google Cloud if you can get Skylake. Or be like me and get those kaby lake i7 mini pcs to colocate! > [@How much is Discourse affected by a faster CPU?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-much-is-discourse-affected-by-a-faster-cpu/58407/12): > > Some command line rebuild numbers: cd /var/discourse git pull ./launcher rebuild app I did this in two consoles, triggered by pressing enter at the exact same time on the last command. I stopped the clock when the command line prompt returned from the rebuild. Digital Ocean droplet (different droplet, but I verified same E5-2630L CPU as in first post, 2GB $20/month droplet) 37:45 → 46:51 = 9 minutes, 6 seconds (546 seconds) Ali Express box 37:45 → 41:38 = 3 minutes, 53 seconds (233 seconds) … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-high-cpu-droplets/64452)._