About

Sub Pulse is an independent blog covering the server rental market — VPS, bare-metal, GPU, and game hosting. Tobias writes it. We rent the servers ourselves, run the same benchmark suite each time, and publish what we find — including the unflattering bits.

How we test

Every review uses the same playbook: a fresh Ubuntu LTS install, sysbench for CPU, fio against the boot disk, iperf3 to a fixed endpoint, and a 7-day uptime watch. GPU reviews add a standardised inference and training run on the model class the provider markets the box for.

How we make money

We earn referral commissions when readers sign up to providers through our links — most notably Runpod. That keeps the site free. Referrals never change scoring, and providers don't see posts before publication.