Introducing Support for ARM Servers on RunCloud

[alex]

Hey everyone

We’re excited to announce that RunCloud now supports ARM servers!

For those who haven’t come across ARM server architecture yet – it’s an alternative server architecture offering a more efficient solution with lower power consumption and reduced heat output – ideal for cost-effective, scalable data centers.

Supported Configurations

• Native NGINX server
• Native OLS server
• Containerized NGINX server

Note: Containerized OpenLiteSpeed servers are not supported.

The server providers that support direct deployments from your RunCloud dashboard that offer ARM server offerings are Hetzner, AWS EC2, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure.

We’re incredibly excited for you to get your hands on this feature & look forward to hearing feedback as users start to deploy their first ARM servers with RunCloud.

Shoutout to Dominic (@wearebrace ) for beating me to it!

@wearebrace

This seems to have gone live today - coincidentally, just as I was checking out Hetzner ARM servers.

[contact_dcrc]

Hi, this is very exciting news but I don’t seem to have access to this new feature I’m on the business plan.

[alex]

Hi Jolean (@contact_dcrc)

This is definitely available on the business plan.

Note: Only specific server providers offer AMD servers. For example, Hetzner.

But during the server provisioning process, you should see this label anyway even if you have selected a server provider that does not:

If not (and assuming you haven’t already done so), please reach out to [email protected] or open a ticket in your dashboard and the team will help see what’s happening.

[wearebrace]

If interested, here’s a dev site (don’t judge the content then), running pure Wordpress, with no page caching at all and no server-side caching.

Scores would tighten up more with caching, but even viewing it as a human, it’s snappy - on Hetzner ARM 2vCPU 4GB VPS.

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/voov.empirebase.co/4P6QrrVb/

https://voov.empirebase.co/

[wearebrace]

Haha!
Sorry if I ruined your announcement!

I am more impressed with ARM than I was expecting to be.
I went with NGINX - am yet to get my head around containerised…

[alex]

Haha not at all – we love to see enthusiastic users / eager to try new features.

[alex]

@wearebrace

If interested, here’s a dev site (don’t judge the content then), running pure Wordpress, with no page caching at all and no server-side caching.

Scores would tighten up more with caching, but even viewing it as a human, it’s snappy - on Hetzner ARM 2vCPU 4GB VPS.

Very snappy on my end too, thank you for sharing. I’m personally excited to put more of my workloads onto AMD servers over time to do more comparisons for different types of sites, dynamic/eComm/content/etc.

[wearebrace]

Absolutely!
I have a simple WP site that I clone to different VPSs at different providers (and now with ARM, different architectures), and use this plugin WordPress Hosting Benchmark tool – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org to get a server benchmark.

At Hetzner:
My older (now shutdown) dev VPS was
1 CPU Intel, 2GB, 20GB - FALKENSTEIN - Score 7 (no object cache) / 7.6 RC FastCGI

Newer
2 CPU ARM, 4GB, 40GB - FALKENSTEIN - 7.8 (no object cache) / 8.3 RC FastCGI

Also -
2 CPU AMD, 2GB, 40GB - Nuremberg - 8.6 (no object cache) / 9 RC FastCGI
3 CPU AMD, 4GB, 80GB - Nuremberg - 8.6 (no object cache) / 9 RC FastCGI
2 CPU AMD Dedi, 8GB, 80GB - Nuremberg - 9.1 (no object cache) / 9.5 RC FastCGI

UpCloud generally gets around:
1 CPU, 2GB, 50GB - London - 8.4 (no object cache) / 8.9 RC FastCGI

Vultr:
1 CPU AMD HighPerf, 2GB, 50GB - London - 8.6 (no object cache) / 9.1 RC FastCGI
1 CPU AMD HighFreq, 1GB, 32GB - London - 8.5 (no object cache) / 8.9 RC FastCGI
to
2 CPU AMD HighFreq, 4GB, 128GB - London - 9.2 (no object cache) / 9.6 RC FastCGI

… though I’m sure you’ll get variation depending on individual server load, since it’s VPS and not dedicated.

[alexwilliam]

Hello, we agree that it’s in stable mode. Have you tested it under ARM? Can we migrate to ARM without worries?

[mehow]

Is this option is off right now?

[alex]

Hey @mehow

This option is still available:

Note: Not all cloud providers have ARM deployment options (or may not support it via API deployments).

What cloud provider were you trying to deploy an ARM server with?

[alexwilliam]

Sorry for the super late reply, I rarely visit the forums, I’m sorry. I use Hetzner. And thank you, because I’ve had three Cloud VPS running on ARM for a few weeks now.

[alex]

Hey Alex, great to see you around, and thanks for sharing.

Awesome to hear you’re enjoying using ARM servers.