As we head into Q2, I sit here and write this post while wearing a hoodie, contemplating turning on the heat. What was supposed to be spring, has taken an odd turn back into the remnants of winter here in Texas.
The first notable observation this month would be DigitalOcean’s new GenAI Agent offering. Pretty on brand for them, as they do a good job of bringing more and more managed services to their platform.
The other observation is that based on the current exchange rate, UpCloud’s price effectively went up. Obviously, this is probably a situation that’s happening all the time, but since I am US-based and primary use services that are USD-focused, I don’t notice these things.
This month, I’m sticking to spinning up just a single instance with each provider. All instances are running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in or around the New York area as per usual.
Overview – DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Kernel Version
6.8.0
MySQL Version
8.0.41
Redis Version
7.0.15
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
Location
New York 1
Newark, NJ
US-NYC1
New York (NJ)
Monthly Price
$6/month
$5/month
$7.67/month
$6/month
Hourly Price
$0.009/hour
$0.0075/hour
$0.01/hour
$0.008/hour
RAM
1 GB
1 GB
1 GB
1 GB
CPU
1 Core
1 Core
1 Core
1 Core
Storage
25 GB
25 GB
25 GB
32 GB
Storage Type
SSD
SSD
SSD
NVMe
Transfer
1 TB
1 TB
1 TB
1 TB
Transfer Overage
$0.01/GB
$0.01/GB
$0.01/GB
$0.01/GB
Backups
$1.2/month
$2/month
$0/month
$1.2/month
CPU Info
Model Name
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
DO-Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
CPU MHz
2,494.14
2,000.00
2,894.56
3,696.10
Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
512.00
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,988.27
3,999.00
5,789.00
7,392.00
CPU
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
Events per Second
868.16
3,445.71
1,622.84
1,507.78
Minimum (ms)
0.91
0.28
0.59
0.62
Average (ms)
1.15
0.29
0.62
0.66
Maximum (ms)
13.75
3.43
1.68
2.67
Memory
Read
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
Ops per Second
4,299,791.52
5,347,628.11
5,402,084.61
7,247,845.03
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
0.34
2.93
0.32
0.21
Write
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
Ops per Second
4,040,736.27
5,326,388.66
5,441,570.00
7,461,719.53
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Maximum (ms)
0.33
3.30
0.26
0.31
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
Reads per Second
1,413.11
3,350.48
2,384.56
4,615.07
Writes per Second
942.07
2,233.66
1,589.71
3,076.68
Fsyncs per Second
3,015.74
7,147.90
5,087.17
9,850.82
Minimum (ms)
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Average (ms)
0.19
0.08
0.11
0.06
Maximum (ms)
8.38
3.56
42.70
1.74
MySQL
Read Only
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
Transactions per Second
4,119.00
5,863.00
6,234.00
7,690.00
Queries per Second
65,904.00
93,808.00
99,744.00
123,040.00
Minimum (ms)
1.27
1.22
1.25
0.95
Average (ms)
2.42
1.70
1.60
1.30
Maximum (ms)
12.42
20.42
42.10
7.17
Write Only
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
Transactions per Second
1,906.00
4,602.00
3,314.00
6,665.00
Queries per Second
11,436.00
27,612.00
19,884.00
39,990.00
Minimum (ms)
1.82
1.06
1.57
0.67
Average (ms)
5.24
2.17
3.02
1.50
Maximum (ms)
26.76
28.77
46.46
26.42
Read Write
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
Transactions per Second
1,065.00
2,215.00
1,762.00
3,248.00
Queries per Second
21,300.00
44,300.00
35,240.00
64,960.00
Minimum (ms)
4.84
2.74
3.21
1.89
Average (ms)
9.38
4.51
5.68
3.08
Maximum (ms)
27.29
20.18
67.18
11.24
Redis
DigitalOcean – Basic – Regular
Linode – Shared CPU – Nanode
UpCloud – General Purpose – Balanced
Vultr – Shared CPU – High Frequency
PING_INLINE
46,382.19
45,454.54
44,033.47
59,276.82
PING_MBULK
39,777.25
46,232.08
45,537.34
62,539.09
SET
36,416.61
44,682.75
45,004.50
62,735.26
GET
38,372.98
45,187.53
45,351.48
62,539.09
INCR
32,226.88
46,104.20
46,019.32
60,350.03
LPUSH
37,878.79
45,024.77
45,599.63
62,421.97
RPUSH
36,791.76
44,464.20
45,599.63
61,919.50
LPOP
45,392.64
44,091.71
43,994.72
60,864.27
RPOP
47,236.65
44,150.11
44,822.95
60,532.69
SADD
47,393.37
45,228.40
45,745.65
60,204.70
HSET
46,663.56
45,228.40
45,106.00
59,523.81
SPOP
47,080.98
45,682.96
44,782.80
60,240.96
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
23,020.26
29,761.91
28,587.77
37,965.07
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
12,020.67
16,597.51
15,678.90
20,000.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
6,869.55
11,700.01
10,890.87
13,929.52
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
5,723.44
10,294.42
9,532.89
11,572.74
MSET (10 keys)
37,160.91
41,407.87
41,562.76
51,413.88
Conclusion
Things are still pretty consistent, with Vultr’s High Frequency offering being one of the best bangs for your buck.
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)
