Category: VPS Showdown

After the last couple of months of comparing all of the nuanced instances available from DigitalOcean and Vultr, I decided to just keep things simple, and stick to comparing the the “regular” instances from everybody. If nothing else, it feels unfair to Akamai Linode to compare their always consistently priced $5 offering to these higher…

After last week’s snafu with the data, I went into this week’s post a bit more cautious. Instead of spinning up all of the instances at one time, I went ahead and spun up servers for each class individually. I would collect the benchmarks for the class, then destroy the servers before spinning up the…

Switching it up for the last post of the year. While comparing DigitalOcean vs. Linode vs. Vultr is fun and all, I’ve been wondering how performance looks across a single provider. This month, I went with DigitalOcean, focusing on their regular CPU offering vs. their premium CPUs. They offer both an Intel-based and AMD-based CPU,…

After a little detour last month, comparing some higher priced plans, I brought it back down to the $5-ish range. Vultr nearly didn’t make the cut, as their site and login started to puke errors at the same time that I was starting to spin instances up. Fortunately it recovered after a few minutes, and…

Time for the spooky season edition of the VPS Showdown. The last few months have been a lot of the same, so I decided to take another crack at trying to do an apples to apples comparison, focusing on price. Even though DigitalOcean lacks a $5 plan, as the plans increase, they eventually offer a…

Labor Day weekend, and I’m trying to drum up the inspiration to run some VPS benchmarks. I’m sticking to the theme of comparing like processors, of the AMD variety. I spun up 3 (or 4, more on that later) instances with each provider, all running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The results have been averaged, when applicable.…

Gonna cut to the case this month, as I’m in the middle of mixing and mastering the final track of our upcoming EP. I’ve spun up 3 instances with DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr. Each one is in or around the New York / Newark area. They are all running some sort of AMD processor, hence…

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…

School’s out and summer is in full swing. As mentioned last month, I’m trying something a bit different. In a vain attempt to get a more “apples to apples” comparison, I went with AMD processors for my instances. This ended up resulting in instances priced between $5 and $7, with no two providers at the…

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…