[Darth-Apple]

I promise not to run a massive mob farm that causes memory leaks and pisses off your host.
I've done that in the past tbh and then had to commit genocide to bring RAM use down.

Lmao   

How consistent is the CPU usage on a typical minecraft server?

Looking to see what would be better for us: 

• Ramnode. $10/month, 2GB of RAM. 2 CPU cores that are fair-share (e.g. we need to make sure we're responsible)
  
• BuyVM: $15/month, 4GB of RAM, 1 CPU core but it's a dedicated one. We can use it as much as we want without worrying about abuse. It's dedicated, unshared CPU.
  
• BuyVM: $30/month, 8GB of RAM, 2 dedicated CPU cores. 
  

With Ramnode, we get great prices on it. I'd prefer to use Ramnode because it's much more affordable, but we would have to be very responsible with the CPU. They don't really care what you do so long as you don't average a CPU core of use or more. In other words, as long as we keep server load above 1.0 cores in use to peak hours only and don't max anything out, we'll be okay.

But it's also better to be safe than to be sorry, and I've been with Ramnode for years and definitely want to be responsible. If we needed the dedicated CPU, would one core be enough?

Looking for pointers from those who have set these up before.