September already! Linode was tangled up with StandardJS’s funding experiment.
DigitalOcean added some new managed databases (still no MongoDB).
Nothing else to report from the other providers, but honestly, month to month,
most of the other providers don’t usually have a ton of movement.
Sticking to previous months, I’m including the $6 high frequency plan from
Vultr. Was planning to expand a bit to include both their $5 and $6 plans, but
was extremely short on time with a ton of travel this month.
Next month, I’m hoping to include both Vultr plans as well as expanding a bit to
include the lower priced ($3.50/month) Lightsail instance. Also probably about
time to add in another provider (ton on my list, so not sure which it will be).
As per usual, I spun up 3 instances with each provider, as close to the New York
/ New Jersey area. All are running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and the results are
averaged.
Overview
| |
DigitalOcean |
Lightsail |
Linode |
UpCloud |
Vultr |
| Location |
New York City 1 |
Virginia, Zone A |
Newark, NJ |
Chicago #1 |
New Jersey |
| RAM |
1 GB |
1 GB |
1 GB |
1 GB |
1 GB |
| CPU |
1 Core |
1 Core |
1 Core |
1 Core |
1 Core |
| Storage |
25 GB SSD |
40 GB SSD |
25 GB SSD |
25 GB SSD |
32 GB NVMe |
| Transfer |
1 TB |
2 TB |
1 TB |
1 TB |
1 TB |
| Base Price |
$5/month |
$5/month |
$5/month |
$5/month |
$6/month |
| Backups |
$1/month |
N/A |
$2/month |
$0.06/GB |
$1.20/month |
| Transfer Overage |
$0.01/GB |
$0.09/GB |
$0.02/GB |
$0.056/GB |
$0.01/GB |
| Load Balancer |
$10/month |
$18/month |
$10/month |
N/A |
N/A |
CPU Info
| |
DigitalOcean |
Lightsail |
Linode |
UpCloud |
Vultr |
| CPU MHz |
1798.61 |
2400.00 |
2366.66 |
3033.33 |
3792.00 |
| Cache Size (KB) |
30720.00 |
30720.00 |
16384.00 |
16384.00 |
16384.00 |
| BogoMips |
2398.33 |
3200.33 |
3199.67 |
4066.33 |
5056.33 |
CPU
| |
DigitalOcean |
Lightsail |
Linode |
UpCloud |
Vultr |
| Events per Second |
593.80 |
857.70 |
577.71 |
1061.39 |
1330.58 |
| Minimum (ms) |
1.42 |
1.03 |
1.27 |
0.93 |
0.74 |
| Average (ms) |
1.72 |
1.16 |
2.39 |
0.94 |
0.75 |
| Maximum (ms) |
2.69 |
4.02 |
32.19 |
3.70 |
1.22 |
Memory (Read)
| |
DigitalOcean |
Lightsail |
Linode |
UpCloud |
Vultr |
| Ops per Second |
2275087.07 |
823467.36 |
2733439.95 |
4530803.93 |
5419702.37 |
| Minimum (ms) |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Average (ms) |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Maximum (ms) |
0.77 |
3.53 |
22.21 |
1.48 |
0.89 |
Memory (Write)
| |
DigitalOcean |
Lightsail |
Linode |
UpCloud |
Vultr |
| Ops per Second |
2288821.92 |
823648.73 |
2618554.59 |
4529235.20 |
5375203.09 |
| Minimum (ms) |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Average (ms) |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Maximum (ms) |
0.90 |
0.40 |
25.75 |
0.97 |
0.51 |
File I/O
| |
DigitalOcean |
Lightsail |
Linode |
UpCloud |
Vultr |
| Reads per Second |
1704.06 |
1196.65 |
1193.97 |
4164.35 |
4892.67 |
| Writes per Second |
1135.98 |
797.75 |
795.98 |
2776.21 |
3261.78 |
| Fsyncs per Second |
3624.81 |
2545.20 |
2541.81 |
8877.08 |
10431.57 |
| Minimum (ms) |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Average (ms) |
0.16 |
0.22 |
0.45 |
0.06 |
0.05 |
| Maximum (ms) |
12.26 |
8.68 |
38.21 |
8.00 |
3.69 |
MySQL
| |
DigitalOcean |
Lightsail |
Linode |
UpCloud |
Vultr |
| Transactions per Second |
2140.33 |
2228.33 |
2206.67 |
4565.00 |
6458.67 |
| Queries per Second |
42806.67 |
44566.67 |
44133.33 |
91300.00 |
129173.33 |
| Minimum (ms) |
2.76 |
2.33 |
2.41 |
1.59 |
1.20 |
| Average (ms) |
4.84 |
4.49 |
8.01 |
2.19 |
1.55 |
| Maximum (ms) |
43.23 |
43.56 |
95.04 |
21.23 |
14.81 |
Redis
| |
DigitalOcean |
Lightsail |
Linode |
UpCloud |
Vultr |
| PING_INLINE |
30294.42 |
56447.68 |
30901.99 |
68360.43 |
64599.93 |
| PING_BULK |
26075.13 |
56898.28 |
32379.20 |
68083.95 |
65017.96 |
| SET |
30732.22 |
56716.93 |
33632.04 |
68469.71 |
64793.10 |
| GET |
30705.80 |
56949.94 |
35341.53 |
67831.33 |
64146.78 |
| INCR |
30670.83 |
57233.28 |
35559.77 |
68409.43 |
64283.64 |
| LPUSH |
31239.16 |
55028.52 |
36531.38 |
68655.29 |
65575.04 |
| RPUSH |
31479.82 |
56685.11 |
34850.14 |
68420.03 |
64941.11 |
| LPOP |
31117.95 |
55791.56 |
33747.36 |
67925.17 |
64147.94 |
| RPOP |
30949.76 |
55789.30 |
38058.17 |
67953.44 |
64422.79 |
| SADD |
30960.14 |
56919.70 |
37847.86 |
67959.28 |
63494.07 |
| HSET |
31211.43 |
55249.30 |
36289.83 |
68538.45 |
64624.49 |
| SPOP |
30837.29 |
56980.51 |
36523.41 |
68170.00 |
64837.29 |
| LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) |
15144.57 |
30351.19 |
14813.10 |
36047.26 |
39428.10 |
| LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) |
6393.10 |
12048.82 |
7014.77 |
14726.08 |
17293.25 |
| LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) |
4600.18 |
8502.01 |
4599.66 |
10156.09 |
12361.84 |
| LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) |
3481.02 |
6736.29 |
3543.80 |
8055.57 |
9999.39 |
| MSET (10 keys) |
26046.02 |
40746.90 |
26466.03 |
53080.03 |
54989.23 |
Speed Test
| |
DigitalOcean |
Lightsail |
Linode |
UpCloud |
Vultr |
| Distance (km) |
2435.00 |
2090.30 |
2421.44 |
1456.73 |
2395.89 |
| Latency (ms) |
44.536 |
40.927 |
47.761 |
35.353 |
44.915 |
| Download (Mbit/s) |
1078.93 |
57.28 |
174.72 |
139.21 |
1218.24 |
| Upload (Mbit/s) |
493.59 |
98.99 |
341.36 |
435.00 |
469.25 |
Apache Benchmark (against nginx on the servers)
| |
DigitalOcean |
Lightsail |
Linode |
UpCloud |
Vultr |
| Requests per Second |
157.30 |
145.85 |
162.41 |
164.71 |
157.07 |
| Time per Request (ms) (mean) |
3181.63 |
3439.88 |
3088.26 |
3047.21 |
3196.72 |
| Transfer Rate (Kbyte/sec) |
131.95 |
122.26 |
136.13 |
138.17 |
131.75 |
Conclusion
Pretty consistent with recent months, the Vultr high frequency instance crushed
it in nearly every category. UpCloud shined with a lot of the Redis operations
as well as the Apache Benchmarks.
Thought the speed test results this month were pretty interesting, with both
DigitalOcean and Vultr putting up download speeds over 1000 MBit/second and the
rest of the bunch below 100 MBit/second.
Something else worth noting. I actually do the creation and tearing down of the
server instances manually every month, and I tell ya, the DigitalOcean user
interface is hands down the best of the batch. The ease of both creation and
removal of instances is damn near frictionless.
As mentioned, hoping to expand the post next month a bit as I haven’t done so in
a minute. And as always, if you found this post helpful in your decision making
process and are planning to sign up for one of the providers mentioned, please
do so using one of my referral links below!
