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VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr

by asadawadia on 8/26/23, 4:48 PM with 60 comments

  • by just_mc on 8/26/23, 9:14 PM

    For shared CPU VPS, the biggest problem is noisy neighbors. Running a test for a few minutes on a single machinge probably doesn't tell you much.

    The machine on one provider might be experiencing more load than a similar machine at a different provider, biasing the results.

    That being said, Vultr has been good for our purposes.

  • by Macha on 8/26/23, 9:54 PM

    > Linode had the slowest cpus at just under 2Ghz

    Uhh, a statement like this somewhat hurts the ability to trust the other claims of the benchmark. Sure, Linode has the lowest clock speed, but you're comparing Epyc Milan which is almost a decade newer than the Sandy-Bridge EP of Cloudfanatic for example. Unsurprisingly, this is even reflected in the one cpu benchmark run, geekbench, which Linode comes first in.

  • by 8organicbits on 8/26/23, 7:37 PM

    Interesting benchmark script [1], but the post really would benefit from a comparison table or graphs.

    https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script

  • by andrewstuart on 8/26/23, 7:49 PM

    I’d like stats included for running on a locally hosted fast modern machine.

  • by adamzochowski on 8/26/23, 7:38 PM

    Why not ovh's option called kimsufi or not Hetzner?

  • by RadixDLT on 8/26/23, 5:37 PM

    Vultr seems to be the fastest, they have a great team

  • by woofcat on 8/27/23, 12:28 AM

    The pricing here always confused me. I thought VPS's were supposed to be cheaper than hardware. At $50+/month you're into dedicated pricing in my mind.

  • by Klonoar on 8/26/23, 8:30 PM

    Would be interested in seeing Katapult thrown into the mix. They're more expensive but I've found them to be overall very good.

    http://katapult.io/

  • by Alifatisk on 8/26/23, 7:40 PM

    Wish they covered Scaleway!

  • by proxiful-wash on 8/26/23, 11:07 PM

    lol who owns cloudfanatic? did they put together their infrastructure with cheats?

  • by asadawadia on 8/26/23, 9:45 PM

    added raspberry pi's results too

  • by coder543 on 8/26/23, 7:57 PM

    Am I the only one seeing some very weird kerning in the text on that site? Switching to my browser's reader mode makes the site more legible for me.

  • by kingofheroes on 8/26/23, 7:30 PM

    Are they all just AWS resellers?