# Slower Dedicated Server vs Faster VPS

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/slower-dedicated-server-vs-faster-vps/61812
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [April 29, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slower-dedicated-server-vs-faster-vps/61812 "2017-04-29T04:20:35Z")
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### 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: [April 29, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/slower-dedicated-server-vs-faster-vps/61812/3 "2017-04-29T05:43:35Z")

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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](http://ark.intel.com/products/64596/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2690-20M-Cache-2_90-GHz-8_00-GTs-Intel-QPI), it is Sandy Bridge.

Xeon 5420 is positively ancient. [It’s from 2007](http://ark.intel.com/products/33927/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5420-12M-Cache-2_50-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB). It will be massively slower, even with {infinite} cores.

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