u/Fair_Praline_6562

I can run a benchmark and see if the box is obviously terrible. What I can’t tell from one test is how it behaves during busy hours, whether CPU steal jumps around, or whether the network has random little drops.

How long do you normally keep a new VPS running before moving anything important to it? A few hours doesn’t seem like much, but paying for two servers for a month just to watch them sit there also feels excessive. Is two or three days usually enough? And what would make you walk away from a server even if the benchmark numbers look fine?