Category: VPS Showdown

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…

With spring already upon us (meteorological, not quite astronomical) it was time for me to shake things up a bit with these posts. This month, my curiosity led me including UpCloud yet again. I also opted to drop the averaged metrics in favor of spinning up just a single instance, and reporting on it as…

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…