All right y’all, the second quarter of 2024 is upon us. Been a bit all over the place on my end, doubly so with it being the high holiday known as WrestleMania Weekend. #CodyCryBabies
I mentioned last month that I’d be trying to include MongoDB benchmarks. I did a bit of research and came to the conclusion that it was going to be a bit more trouble than it’s worth right now.
Not ruling it out in the future, but I think there’s a higher likelihood of including PostgreSQL and/or SQLite benchmarks down the road.
Depending on how quickly everybody adds support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, this may be the last post featuring Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
As always, I’ve spun up 3 instances with each provider. All instances were in or around the New York / Newark area. Each instance is at or around the $5 price point. Data was averaged together where applicable.
Overview – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
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 Instances
DO-Regular
Linode – All Instances
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Vultr – All Instances
Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
CPU MHz
2,263.07
2,000.00
2,394.45
Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
NaN
2,666.67
3,192.33
CPU
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Events per Second
833.74
3,514.80
853.26
Minimum (ms)
1.03
0.25
1.13
Average (ms)
1.23
0.28
1.17
Maximum (ms)
6.48
4.73
3.73
Memory
Read
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Ops per Second
3,437,138.24
5,549,685.19
4,131,166.76
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
4.92
2.30
0.39
Write
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Ops per Second
3,447,958.44
5,426,018.07
4,097,991.25
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
3.38
3.01
1.88
File I/O
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Reads per Second
697.44
3,182.46
2,268.14
Writes per Second
464.94
2,121.61
1,512.10
Fsyncs per Second
1,489.50
6,796.08
4,843.94
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.38
0.08
0.11
Maximum (ms)
128.80
4.77
11.62
MySQL
Read Only
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
2,843.00
7,821.67
4,684.33
Queries per Second
45,488.00
125,146.67
74,949.33
Minimum (ms)
1.53
0.99
1.61
Average (ms)
3.65
1.28
2.14
Maximum (ms)
45.51
11.51
24.07
Write Only
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
832.67
7,314.33
3,644.67
Queries per Second
4,996.00
43,886.00
21,868.00
Minimum (ms)
4.18
0.69
1.26
Average (ms)
12.36
1.36
2.93
Maximum (ms)
240.62
11.19
47.49
Read Write
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
537.67
3,225.33
1,828.67
Queries per Second
10,753.33
64,506.67
36,573.33
Minimum (ms)
7.01
1.91
3.17
Average (ms)
19.07
3.10
5.47
Maximum (ms)
266.60
16.66
22.01
Redis
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
PING_INLINE
24,533.75
50,133.43
25,896.15
PING_BULK
23,138.10
48,298.53
24,509.57
SET
24,516.21
51,749.54
25,775.52
GET
23,246.40
51,519.42
25,365.94
INCR
23,389.16
52,824.08
25,656.31
LPUSH
24,839.91
56,273.73
26,730.81
RPUSH
24,227.49
55,517.91
26,731.01
LPOP
23,044.27
55,026.63
27,038.36
RPOP
25,501.12
53,527.81
26,300.85
SADD
23,841.71
50,172.20
24,930.87
HSET
23,834.18
52,110.35
26,757.30
SPOP
22,093.15
48,027.15
24,778.28
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
14,291.09
21,610.73
19,638.87
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
6,617.78
10,174.87
8,935.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
5,181.73
7,861.65
6,753.52
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4,357.90
6,558.51
5,759.20
MSET (10 keys)
26,483.19
60,319.68
29,542.58
Conclusion
This was one of those months where I really needed to scrutinize the results because Linode absolutely obliterated DigitalOcean and Vultr in terms of raw speed and performance.
Best as I can tell, everything was on the up and up. In fact, as I monitored my scripts, all of the Linode instances completed up before either DigitalOcean or Vultr had one instance finish.
Definitely curious to see if this continues in the coming months.
If you have found these posts informative and helpful in searching for a new hosting provider, please consider using one of the links below when signing up:
DigitalOcean, new accounts receive $200 in credit (good for 60 days)
Linode, new accounts receive $100 in credit (also good for 60 days)
Vultr, new accounts also receive $100 in credit (good for only 14 days)
UpCloud, new accounts receive €25 in credit (yes, that’s in Euros)
