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VPS Showdown - February 2024 - DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr

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New month with new observations when looking at DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr. Even though each provider uses the same Linux kernel version, they all have different patch numbers and dates. Vultr offering the most recent, Linode second, and DigitalOcean with a version seemingly from nearly a year ago.

Suspect that each provider has their own flavor of Linux kernel to support their own hardware. From an end user's perspective, this isn't even noticed in terms of system function and stability.

Similar to last month, I spun up three instances with each VPS provider and ran my metrics. Finally, where appropriate, I average the results.

Overview - DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr

Version
Linux Distro Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Kernel Version 5.15.0
MySQL Version 8.0.36
Redis Version 6.0.16
DigitalOcean Linode Vultr
Location New York 1 Newark, NJ New York (NJ)
Monthly Price $6/month $5/month $5/month
Hourly Price $0.009/hour $0.0075/hour $0.007/hour
RAM 1 GB 1 GB 1 GB
CPU 1 Core 1 Core 1 Core
Storage 25 GB 25 GB 25 GB
Storage Type SSD SSD SSD
Transfer 1 TB 1 TB 1 TB
Transfer Overage $0.01/GB $0.01/GB $0.01/GB
Backups $1.2/month $2/month $1/month

CPU Info

Model Name
DigitalOcean - All DO-Regular
Linode - Instance #1 AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Linode - Instance #2 AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor
Linode - Instance #3 AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Vultr - Instance #1 Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Vultr - Instance #2 Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Vultr - Instance #3 Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)
DigitalOcean Linode Vultr
CPU MHz 2,361.12 2,100.00 2,400.00
Cache Size (KB) 4,096.00 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips NaN 2,666.33 3,199.67

CPU

DigitalOcean Linode Vultr
Events per Second 971.22 2,808.26 832.67
Minimum (ms) 0.91 0.39 1.02
Average (ms) 1.04 0.40 1.20
Maximum (ms) 11.24 3.89 4.50

Memory

Read

DigitalOcean Linode Vultr
Ops per Second 3,720,266.68 5,309,869.34 4,012,520.88
Minimum (ms) 0.00 0.00 0.00
Average (ms) 0.00 0.00 0.00
Maximum (ms) 3.21 3.46 0.42

Write

DigitalOcean Linode Vultr
Ops per Second 3,741,704.82 5,340,109.36 3,980,842.98
Minimum (ms) 0.00 0.00 0.00
Average (ms) 0.00 0.00 0.00
Maximum (ms) 2.18 3.99 0.46

File I/O

DigitalOcean Linode Vultr
Reads per Second 1,202.13 3,471.04 1,928.35
Writes per Second 801.41 2,313.99 1,285.53
Fsyncs per Second 2,568.90 7,411.87 4,120.38
Minimum (ms) 0.00 0.00 0.00
Average (ms) 0.23 0.08 0.14
Maximum (ms) 45.05 6.80 203.83

MySQL

Read Only

DigitalOcean Linode Vultr
Transactions per Second 4,437.33 6,669.00 4,292.33
Queries per Second 70,997.33 106,704.00 68,677.33
Minimum (ms) 1.49 1.15 1.68
Average (ms) 2.35 1.50 2.33
Maximum (ms) 41.88 13.90 24.15

Write Only

DigitalOcean Linode Vultr
Transactions per Second 1,958.33 6,453.00 3,368.33
Queries per Second 11,750.00 38,718.00 20,210.00
Minimum (ms) 2.03 0.73 1.46
Average (ms) 5.30 1.55 2.97
Maximum (ms) 66.80 26.81 24.50

Read Write

DigitalOcean Linode Vultr
Transactions per Second 807.67 2,806.00 1,478.67
Queries per Second 16,153.33 56,120.00 29,573.33
Minimum (ms) 5.88 2.11 3.76
Average (ms) 78.38 3.58 6.77
Maximum (ms) 431.88 19.61 35.40

Redis

DigitalOcean Linode Vultr
PING_INLINE 31,682.55 49,533.43 24,486.06
PING_BULK 28,844.91 46,922.36 23,509.21
SET 32,012.88 50,590.68 24,371.38
GET 31,351.21 48,426.05 24,576.17
INCR 31,981.92 47,763.54 25,099.43
LPUSH 33,966.66 51,102.19 26,350.20
RPUSH 33,105.93 51,376.45 25,529.62
LPOP 32,521.71 49,615.00 26,318.95
RPOP 32,952.75 49,189.72 25,863.66
SADD 31,728.51 49,013.99 24,822.19
HSET 33,668.89 52,227.45 26,198.89
SPOP 30,508.22 47,750.51 23,058.04
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) 17,910.73 22,149.37 17,926.04
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) 8,079.97 9,899.08 8,202.66
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) 6,009.81 7,470.36 6,269.88
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) 4,781.04 6,352.23 5,462.09
MSET (10 keys) 30,648.87 60,110.55 29,793.72

Conclusion

Things were a bit more all over the place this month, with Linode putting up the best metrics overall. While running my scripts, one of the DigitalOcean instances was definitely lagging behind all of the others. More than likely, this negatively impacted some of the metrics.

Hopefully you found this post helpful in your quest for a hosting provider. These results are my own, so it's always a good idea to do your own independent research as well. If nothing else, spin up a few instances to ensure you're getting the best CPU available.

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