Performance Benchmarks - Vultr Vs DigitalOcean Vs Linode | Who's Fastest in the Speed Tests?

Which VPS is fastest? We test the $5 and $6 options from Vultr, Linode and Digital Ocean. Digital Ocean recently released its new 'Premium' Intel & AMD droplets, at the same price point as Vultr High frequency. How will these compare?
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[@jitendrakumarsingh1137]

Man Vultr HF is a beast. I am using since a year for now

[@sail4horizon]

Loving my Vultr HF on Cloudways. Thanks for your tutorials!

[@IdeaSpot]

Great to hear!

[@markuspatzer8658]

Always great genius videos from Alex ! My experience is with wordpress (on Linode is fast) using a extra cdn make my site load slower than before. Now today I tried azure cdn, my ms speed is super in us (us datacenter) in europe around 500-600ms, (before it was around 380-450ms) australia way over 700ms... In gtmetrix full page load now in 1,2 seconds which is very good, but before without azure cdn it was blazing fast 600ms ! I do not know how to handle this, I have cyberpanel- better I use the Litespeedcache plugin and not using any cdn or maybe I will try quic cloud cdn or Arvan tomorrow to see if that give me some improvements. What is your experience with using a cdn Alex ? Happy sunday to all!

[@tapashaviator]

Hardware benchmark is only half the story... what about network performance? server ping and response times? upload/download speeds? ... this is where the big boys AWS and GCP stand out.

[@IdeaSpot]

Its a good point - possibly at very high budgets AWS and GCP may offer some advantages. Though at the budget most of our audience here is interested in, these three smaller providers will give notably better performance.

[@DavisTibbz]

AWS now has 4.8$/month plan (paid annually) for 2vCPU 1GB ram. t4g micro.

[@DavisTibbz]

AWS now has 4.8$/month plan (paid annually) for 2vCPU 1GB ram. t4g micro.

[@timmark4190]

Network is only 5Gigabit where as other offer 0.5TB

[@mohamedgaber5076]

Thank you for this very useful video. I've seen people complaining that Vultr have reliability issues like problems with servers uptime. Any idea about that?

[@IdeaSpot]

I've been using it myself since sept 2020 and it's been perfect for me: snipboard.io/voYKlE.jpg (100% uptime) It's likely that being such a highly recommended service, it will attract inexperienced users who may overload their server and then they blame their provider. I noticed this same type of feedback when siteground was popular, people would complain about it too, when its really a nice product.

[@aucksy]

hey man ! I have been watching your tutorials ! Thanks for the big help ! was able to successfully complete a test migration !! I had a confusion mate. my target market is India. Should I go for Vultr HF server in Singapore or will it be better for my visitors from India if I setup my website on Lenode or Digital Ocean on their Indian servers....

[@IdeaSpot]

Hi, probably best to host it in India usually in that case :)

[@कनिष्क-घ9थ]

I tested vultr hf on cloudways. Surprisingly Vultr hf from Singapore takes less time to load compare to DO banglore and linode mumbai

[@Maazwebsitetech]

My freind acc in vultr is ban And i ask you what the reasons of the ban in general

[@IdeaSpot]

Often it could be email spam or poor/vulnerable plugin related, maybe using a poor wordpress plugin that uses email/notifications for example

[@Maazwebsitetech]

But in normal . Can the account band with any reason

[@IdeaSpot]

Have you tested any of these VPS plans yet? what did you think?

[@gambomaster]

Can we host Django websites on Cloudways with DO/Vultr? 🤔

[@eimannabe2720]

can i setting up with odoo 14 & Vultr HF on cloud ways, and how can i host. thanks

[@phil-l]

Please run geekbench 5 next time :)

[@vigilantezack]

"All of these are a lot better than cheap shared hosting around the same price point." Let's face it, there really isn't any "cheap hosting" around this price point any more. I mean, all the well known name shared hosting providers only start at $5 or $7 or $10 as a intro price for the first month or year or whatever. The average shared hosting cost is going to be at least $10, $15, $25 per month easy unless you use a no-name spam host. The one thing these VPS providers really do still lack is good long-retention backups. VULTR has an addon price for backups but they only keep TWO copies?!? Linode has some kind of convoluted backup thing that doesn't make a lot of sense to figure out. What I'd like to see is a standard 30 day daily backup, offsite storage from the main server, even offsite from the main server farm for protection, with additional internal redundancy. Not that we shouldn't keep our own separate backups too, but a good long-retention host-based backup is often faster and more convenient to use. As long as it doesn't break the bank. Charge me an Amazon S3 or Glacier fee if that's how you want to do it, but give me more than 2 copies for my own sanity. Some websites might not even notices they've been hacked for a week, so longer retention is important in some cases.

[@drcod3r329]

i wish you add contabo to the compare :(

[@IdeaSpot]

Oh I made a recent contabo video, I use the same metrics there did u watch it yet?

[@drcod3r329]

@@IdeaSpot Ill watch it now i didn't know u already made one

[@IdeaSpot]

No problem, contabo is pretty good except the network port speed is limited compared to vultr and DO, but having the extra ram and cpu is nice if u want a big site or multiple sites

[@drcod3r329]

@@IdeaSpot as i did a simple test they have really poor firewall

[@drcod3r329]

it get ddosed easly

[@MarcHershey]

Your mouth is going to give birth to a microphone… maybe not so close next time