Slower Dedicated Server vs Faster VPS

None of this really matters (past a certain low point like 2GB RAM, 2 cores, unless you have an enormous database), what matters to Discourse is single threaded performance.

At least that E5-2690 is from this decade, it is Sandy Bridge.

Xeon 5420 is positively ancient. It’s from 2007. It will be massively slower, even with {infinite} cores.

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