I picked up a pre-ai-price-insanity AX162-R at Hetzner a while back and loaded it up on memory to max out the 12 channels the 48c EPYC 9454P as a "this will be the last mysql box I'll need" and have I been _wildly_ impressed with it's performance. The things I throw at it are honestly laughable at times, wildly irresponsible queries against a rather large database, the redis qps metrics are ridiculous and I just load it up with random ggufs since the memory bandwidth is... not terrible and 384GB of it is... useful.

The web app that's hosted on it deals with lots of images and text - over 100mil of each deduplicated, embedded, simhashed - it does the hashing, and the embedding in real time during ingest. Just handles it.

These things are absolutely insane.