While spring isn’t officially here yet, it’s definitely starting to feel like winter is over. More of the same this month, as we finish off the first quarter of 2024.
Next month, I’m hoping to finally get some MongoDB benchmarks into the mix. By the end of the second quarter, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be released as well. It’s always fun to see which providers make it available the fastest.
One small observation this month, all of the Linode instances had the same first 3 parts to their IP addresses. This makes me think that all three instances may have resided on the same physical host. Fortunately, It didn’t seem like running benchmarks choked itself out (noisy neighbor problem) so my theory may not be correct.
As always, I’ve spun up 3 instances with each VPS provided, all running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Where it made sense, I averaged out the results.
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
AMD EPYC-Rome Processor
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
CPU MHz
2,361.12
2,000.00
1,996.25
Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
n/a
2,666.67
2,661.67
CPU
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Events per Second
924.04
3,658.83
2,786.73
Minimum (ms)
0.93
0.24
0.30
Average (ms)
1.09
0.28
0.36
Maximum (ms)
113.46
2.73
7.47
Memory
Read
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Ops per Second
3,827,942.45
5,831,931.62
3,913,171.02
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
5.66
2.15
4.06
Write
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Ops per Second
3,807,736.92
5,642,745.07
3,541,016.02
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
2.96
2.39
9.28
File I/O
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Reads per Second
877.64
2,984.06
1,170.10
Writes per Second
585.07
1,989.36
780.07
Fsyncs per Second
1,879.08
6,372.39
2,499.77
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.32
0.09
0.23
Maximum (ms)
108.43
8.89
47.56
MySQL
Read Only
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
4,206.67
8,121.67
3,777.33
Queries per Second
67,306.67
129,946.67
60,437.33
Minimum (ms)
1.18
0.93
1.33
Average (ms)
2.47
1.23
2.65
Maximum (ms)
84.83
15.25
52.02
Write Only
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
969.33
7,748.67
1,468.00
Queries per Second
5,816.00
46,492.00
8,808.00
Minimum (ms)
3.51
0.68
1.54
Average (ms)
13.06
1.29
8.50
Maximum (ms)
419.36
13.02
112.00
Read Write
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
917.00
3,288.67
703.33
Queries per Second
18,340.00
65,773.33
14,066.67
Minimum (ms)
5.32
1.82
3.83
Average (ms)
12.13
3.05
14.36
Maximum (ms)
86.78
14.56
139.78
Redis
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
PING_INLINE
28,561.80
55,847.69
34,060.93
PING_BULK
28,902.86
51,983.23
31,409.95
SET
29,158.33
57,841.21
34,251.53
GET
27,464.52
55,262.83
31,371.76
INCR
27,597.95
55,819.26
33,459.05
LPUSH
28,597.00
59,834.67
35,552.53
RPUSH
28,375.56
57,361.23
36,647.47
LPOP
29,128.89
58,815.69
35,015.51
RPOP
28,511.25
56,883.47
33,206.44
SADD
28,374.77
55,638.04
33,050.31
HSET
30,318.04
59,094.81
36,487.43
SPOP
28,819.91
52,753.40
33,581.67
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
17,952.71
23,374.36
21,579.72
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
7,804.52
11,225.60
8,587.71
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
6,007.52
8,625.96
5,754.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4,898.07
7,162.38
4,933.25
MSET (10 keys)
30,343.59
70,253.91
28,691.15
Conclusion
Even though DigitalOcean is touting a faster CPU, Linode’s still looking quite strong as of late with their shared CPU offering. As always, if you’re shopping for a new VPS hosting provider, it’s always good to take some time to do your own independent benchmarking, and not just relying on what you read on the Internet.
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)
