I wasn’t sure how this month was going to go in terms of the availability of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with each provider. Fortunately, everybody is already supporting this fresh off the presses release. Even more fortunately, is that there was very little that needed to be fixed up in my scripts to support this latest LTS release.
As always, I’ve spun up 3 instances with each provider, all running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The results are averaged together where applicable. Enjoy!
Overview – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Kernel Version
6.8.0
MySQL Version
8.0.36
Redis Version
7.0.15
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 (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
CPU MHz
2,494.14
2,000.00
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
936.72
3,473.19
850.11
Minimum (ms)
0.90
0.28
0.99
Average (ms)
1.07
0.29
1.18
Maximum (ms)
3.64
4.12
3.47
Memory
Read
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Ops per Second
4,268,163.95
5,481,022.88
4,333,088.31
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
1.44
1.67
0.51
Write
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Ops per Second
4,184,620.59
5,494,021.52
4,400,069.68
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
1.03
1.73
1.34
File I/O
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Reads per Second
1,330.22
2,622.64
2,223.21
Writes per Second
886.80
1,748.40
1,482.12
Fsyncs per Second
2,842.69
5,598.01
4,749.04
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.20
0.10
0.12
Maximum (ms)
23.85
3.30
6.72
MySQL
Read Only
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
4,004.00
6,482.00
4,059.00
Queries per Second
64,064.00
103,712.00
64,944.00
Minimum (ms)
1.24
1.17
1.72
Average (ms)
2.52
1.54
2.46
Maximum (ms)
31.49
14.76
20.43
Write Only
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
1,570.67
5,144.67
2,617.67
Queries per Second
9,424.00
30,868.00
15,706.00
Minimum (ms)
2.40
0.94
1.88
Average (ms)
6.64
1.95
3.84
Maximum (ms)
65.98
15.63
26.77
Read Write
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
962.33
2,322.00
1,314.67
Queries per Second
19,246.67
46,440.00
26,293.33
Minimum (ms)
4.70
2.53
4.23
Average (ms)
10.73
4.31
7.62
Maximum (ms)
46.33
17.43
32.00
Redis
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
PING_INLINE
37,100.14
47,763.28
34,126.62
PING_MBULK
38,611.23
48,774.29
35,689.25
SET
42,229.94
47,551.25
34,319.56
GET
45,300.99
47,593.83
35,469.96
INCR
45,383.15
47,402.31
34,629.96
LPUSH
44,016.73
46,247.65
32,859.42
RPUSH
43,219.83
47,006.02
35,801.87
LPOP
39,383.26
46,460.22
35,116.48
RPOP
44,027.12
46,630.73
34,352.27
SADD
46,513.10
47,423.35
33,611.26
HSET
45,432.44
46,772.74
34,611.42
SPOP
46,683.31
47,878.47
36,435.50
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
25,350.54
31,733.05
23,333.70
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
11,525.35
17,798.27
12,768.62
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
7,252.90
12,356.53
8,894.73
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
5,767.11
10,837.25
7,747.40
MSET (10 keys)
34,721.81
43,582.10
32,143.06
Conclusion
More of the same this month, with Linode (Akamai Connected Cloud), doing a really good job of staying ahead of the pack.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I really do like to have an apples to apples comparison. This has grown harder and harder over the years, as each provider has done things in their own way.
Because of this, I’m starting to think that it’s time to focus on the processor that each provider offers. Linode has since moved to AMD processors along the way, and both DigitalOcean and Vultr offer AMD options.
I’m going to try that out next month, as I’m thinking it will change the comparison quite a bit in terms of who will be on top.
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:
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UpCloud, new accounts receive €25 in credit (yes, that’s in Euros)
