While not as perfect as I would like, this month we’ll continue with comparing plans with AMD processors from DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr.
Pricing ranges from $5 to $7, and while each instance has an AMD processor, there is still a mix of what you may end up with. DigitalOcean still isn’t very transparent with their offering, obscuring the actual processor with a generic placeholder.
All instances are running the latest LTS release of Ubuntu, and I’ve spun up 3 instances with each provider. Of course, the results are averaged where it makes the most sense.
Overview – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Kernel Version
6.8.0
MySQL Version
8.0.37
Redis Version
7.0.15
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Location
New York 1
Newark, NJ
New York (NJ)
Monthly Price
$7/month
$5/month
$6/month
Hourly Price
$0.01/hour
$0.0075/hour
$0.009/hour
RAM
1 GB
1 GB
1 GB
CPU
1 Core
1 Core
1 Core
Storage
25 GB
25 GB
25 GB
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
NVMe
Transfer
1 TB
1 TB
1 TB
Transfer Overage
$0.01/GB
$0.01/GB
$0.01/GB
Backups
$1.4/month
$2/month
$1.2/month
CPU Info
Model Name
DigitalOcean – All Instances
DO-Premium-AMD
Linode – Instance #1
AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor
Linode – Instance #2
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Linode – Instance #3
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Vultr – Instance #1
AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
Vultr – Instance #2
AMD EPYC-Rome Processor
Vultr – Instance #3
AMD EPYC-Milan Processor
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
CPU MHz
1,996.25
2,100.00
2,832.08
Cache Size (KB)
512.00
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
2,661.67
2,866.67
4,333.33
CPU
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Events per Second
1,333.94
2,877.22
3,219.65
Minimum (ms)
0.64
0.37
0.25
Average (ms)
0.75
0.41
0.31
Maximum (ms)
3.37
4.34
16.62
Memory
Read
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Ops per Second
4,390,045.26
5,386,780.70
4,346,224.83
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
0.58
3.06
10.73
Write
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Ops per Second
4,332,418.85
5,378,927.34
4,276,949.03
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
0.34
2.78
21.31
File I/O
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Reads per Second
1,338.78
2,753.55
1,401.49
Writes per Second
892.52
1,835.68
934.33
Fsyncs per Second
2,860.84
5,879.77
2,996.44
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.20
0.10
0.21
Maximum (ms)
12.58
9.50
37.59
MySQL
Read Only
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
4,062.67
6,218.33
4,336.67
Queries per Second
65,002.67
99,493.33
69,386.67
Minimum (ms)
1.51
1.21
1.09
Average (ms)
2.47
1.65
2.41
Maximum (ms)
18.34
19.03
62.40
Write Only
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
1,793.67
3,969.00
2,043.00
Queries per Second
10,762.00
23,814.00
12,258.00
Minimum (ms)
1.96
1.12
1.54
Average (ms)
5.60
2.58
7.34
Maximum (ms)
54.57
35.50
70.68
Read Write
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
Transactions per Second
1,060.33
2,079.00
1,242.67
Queries per Second
21,206.67
41,580.00
24,853.33
Minimum (ms)
4.52
2.68
3.62
Average (ms)
9.53
4.94
10.57
Maximum (ms)
52.36
26.65
65.91
Redis
DigitalOcean
Linode
Vultr
PING_INLINE
29,700.80
45,979.56
32,104.56
PING_MBULK
27,511.12
46,237.21
32,141.48
SET
30,270.98
44,801.67
31,164.65
GET
31,855.76
44,608.93
28,590.99
INCR
31,612.29
44,639.14
27,237.30
LPUSH
30,145.69
43,066.53
29,820.29
RPUSH
29,625.89
44,312.28
31,420.83
LPOP
29,079.21
44,880.43
31,285.98
RPOP
28,477.13
46,003.19
32,139.83
SADD
31,072.77
47,503.48
31,257.73
HSET
30,892.96
46,016.45
31,019.08
SPOP
31,544.95
45,788.99
27,426.15
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
19,968.73
29,491.14
22,334.52
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
11,472.20
16,961.34
12,288.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
7,263.38
11,649.21
7,779.99
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
6,701.63
10,030.43
7,350.11
MSET (10 keys)
28,136.23
41,529.36
29,748.23
Conclusion
Not much really changed this month with Linode out performing in most categories. Small observation would be that last month one of the Linode instances was 32-core, and the other two were 64-core. This month we had a mix of 48-core and 64-core. I’m curious if we’ll see that trend in the direction of 64-core being the only processor we see until the next generation lands.
As always, I highly recommend you do your own tests and definitely spin up multiple instances before you make a commitment. Last thing you want is your brand new project running on last year’s hardware.
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)
