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I ordered the cheapest Hetzner CX23 ($4.99/mo, shared-resources tier) and ran a real-workload SQLite benchmark on it. Not a microbenchmark — a 6 GB database on a box with 3.7 GB of RAM, so reads actually have to touch disk.

Mixed OLTP workload (70% reads, 25% updates, 5% inserts): 3.9k ops/s, p99 = 710 µs, p999 = 2.2 ms.

= 14 million ops/hour on a $5 VPS, with sub-3 ms tail latency.