Labor Day weekend, and I’m trying to drum up the inspiration to run some VPS benchmarks. I’m sticking to the theme of comparing like processors, of the AMD variety. I spun up 3 (or 4, more on that later) instances with each provider, all running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The results have been averaged, when applicable.
Overview – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Kernel Version
6.8.0
MySQL Version
8.0.39
Redis Version
7.0.15
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Location
New York 1
Newark, NJ
New York (NJ)
Monthly Price
$7/month
$5/month
$6/month
Hourly Price
$0.01/hour
$0.0075/hour
$0.009/hour
RAM
1 GB
1 GB
1 GB
CPU
1 Core
1 Core
1 Core
Storage
25 GB
25 GB
25 GB
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
NVMe
Transfer
1 TB
1 TB
1 TB
Transfer Overage
$0.01/GB
$0.01/GB
$0.01/GB
Backups
Standard $1.40/month Daily $2.10/month
$2/month
$1.2/month
CPU Info
Model Name
DigitalOcean – All Instances
DO-Premium-AMD
Linode – All Instances
AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor
Vultr – Instance #1
AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
Vultr – Instance #2
AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
Vultr – Instance #3
AMD EPYC-Rome Processor
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
CPU MHz
1,996.25
2,300.00
2,832.08
Cache Size (KB)
512.00
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
2,661.67
3,067.00
3,497.67
CPU
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Events per Second
1,370.21
1,447.63
3,642.89
Minimum (ms)
0.63
0.60
0.24
Average (ms)
0.73
0.70
0.28
Maximum (ms)
3.52
8.48
4.67
Memory
Read
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Ops per Second
4,218,351.05
4,977,966.38
5,262,104.33
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
2.05
3.77
2.13
Write
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Ops per Second
4,154,348.17
4,768,090.68
5,196,340.27
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
1.13
9.89
2.01
File I/O
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Reads per Second
1,355.24
2,242.67
1,999.73
Writes per Second
903.45
1,495.11
1,333.12
Fsyncs per Second
2,896.29
4,788.76
4,275.69
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.20
0.12
0.13
Maximum (ms)
11.44
57.21
22.44
MySQL
Read Only
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
4,309.00
5,009.00
5,984.33
Queries per Second
68,944.00
80,144.00
95,749.33
Minimum (ms)
1.46
1.38
0.98
Average (ms)
2.36
2.07
1.77
Maximum (ms)
25.51
28.51
26.36
Write Only
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
1,836.00
3,665.67
3,570.33
Queries per Second
11,016.00
21,994.00
21,422.00
Minimum (ms)
1.96
1.28
1.05
Average (ms)
5.60
2.82
3.00
Maximum (ms)
100.73
19.27
38.39
Read Write
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
1,116.67
1,836.67
1,730.67
Queries per Second
22,333.33
36,733.33
34,613.33
Minimum (ms)
4.39
3.08
2.71
Average (ms)
9.27
5.65
6.44
Maximum (ms)
37.13
54.65
46.66
Redis
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
PING_INLINE
31,667.46
38,227.03
36,913.69
PING_MBULK
32,539.55
40,505.34
38,208.83
SET
31,720.08
36,289.96
37,853.12
GET
30,229.17
36,886.41
39,564.47
INCR
29,702.45
37,873.45
38,164.14
LPUSH
28,114.57
38,355.53
37,587.95
RPUSH
30,173.38
35,987.36
37,080.19
LPOP
30,424.79
38,814.10
37,761.97
RPOP
29,800.66
39,811.67
37,000.76
SADD
27,555.22
39,228.60
37,360.41
HSET
27,095.25
38,907.94
38,479.75
SPOP
29,755.87
36,280.26
37,893.51
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
20,069.27
25,946.85
26,437.27
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
10,977.35
13,933.05
14,920.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
7,809.86
8,968.16
10,343.35
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
6,895.21
8,338.39
9,491.90
MSET (10 keys)
26,594.89
31,181.96
35,371.29
Conclusion
Linode is still leading the pack in most categories, while being the most budget friendly of the bunch. This month’s oddity was with the Vultr instances I spun up. One of the three instances took an exceptionally long time to spin up. After it spun up, I wasn’t able to connect to it at all.
My initial Vultr instances were all spun up at the same time, with the same configuration, so it wasn’t like I had goofed spinning up one of them. I did spin up a fourth instance, as it’s usually not worth my time to figure out what went wrong with an instance I’ll be deleting quickly anyway.
Otherwise, everything else seemed to run smoothly. Of course, if you found this comparison helpful, and you’re planning to sign up for a new VPS provider, it would be awesome if you used my referral links below.
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