Dedicated CPU plans that still lose CPU time
Dedicated-CPU plans whose worst minute of CPU steal hits 6.65% or more, taken as the median across runs. Dedicated should mean zero, which means you don't want to end up on this list.
None of the 7 plans we compared is far enough off to list right now.
Left out because the host never reported any steal, which usually means it isn't exposed to the server rather than that none happened: Hetzner CCX13.
How plans get on this list
- A plan needs at least 3 completed runs from the last 90 days, spread across at least 2 locations or 2 different days, so one bad host or one bad afternoon can't rank it.
- Plans are only compared with plans of the same CPU class. Shared CPU plans are never ranked against dedicated ones.
- Every completed run counts. We don't drop bad runs or rerun a plan until it looks better.
- Only plans well past the line for this board get listed, and that line is spelled out below. Plans under it still count toward the comparison, they just aren't shown.
- Steal is measured once a second for the whole run, counting only the seconds where the server was asking for at least half its CPU. Steal on an idle server doesn't tell you much.
- A run only counts if it has at least 5 minutes of that kind of load.
- The worst minute is the worst 60-second average in a run. Single-second spikes are mostly noise, so they aren't used.
- A plan is listed when its median worst minute is 6.65% or more, 33% past a 5% minute.
- A plan is marked stolen when at least 2 of its runs had a minute with 5% steal or more.