Category: VPS Showdown

It’s been a long time since I wrote my original Linode vs. DigitalOcean post. The year was 2013 and it was a simpler time. Over the last [nearly] ten years, the humble post grew from being the output of my own gross curiosity about the performance of a couple of…

The big news for this month would be DigitalOcean’s announcement of their “serverless functions” product being beta released. Said functionality is the equivalent of AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions and Azure Function. While not the most exciting news, as I don’t include any additional benchmarks, it did lead to me…

The landscape of Virtual Private Servers is ever changing and evolving. Gone are the days of providers offering just servers. Many providers offer a wide range of managed services in addition to traditional VPS offerings. Maybe I’m too much of an old dog, but I’m finding the more recent trend…

The biggest news this month is that Linode was recently acquired by Akamai Technologies for a whopping $900M. What that will do to the VPS landscape is yet to be seen. The most immediate impact I’ve noticed is that Linode is going to start charging sales tax in May. I…

Around this time last year, we were dealing with one of the worst winter storms in Texas history. While it’s still pretty cold, we’ve been extremely fortunate this year. Hopefully everybody reading this is staying warm (or cool, if you’re south of the equator), safe and healthy! Similar to previous…

So 2021 was interesting. Not going to bore you with the details of my life, but I am ready to bore you with the details of the world of virtual private servers! I forgot to do my “Christmas wish list” last month as I have in the past, but it’s…

Here we are, with the final VPS Showdown of 2021. We’ve seen a few changes over the course of the year in terms of product offerings. One of the most notable was the adoption of AMD EPYC processors either a standard or premium offering depending on the provider. Next year…

Even though the year is drawing to a close, these showdowns continue. Nothing very exciting this month other than it seems Linode took their firewall offering out of beta and Vultr did the same with their Kubernetes offering. DigitalOcean continues to lead the pack in terms of their “managed” offerings,…

Q4 is upon us! I’ve been busy moving recently, so I’ve admittedly not been as on top of the VPS news (or my Twitter account) in the last few weeks. That being said, it looks like Lightsail is not offering container hosting, which I’m assuming is a bit more inline…