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I have servers on Vultr, AWS, Azure, physical hardware in data centres and a few others. The physical servers are by far the fastest obviously, but when looking
by smcleod 10y ago
I have servers on Vultr, AWS, Azure, physical hardware in data centres and a few others. The physical servers are by far the fastest obviously, but when looking at the VPS / 'cloud' services Vultr is by _far_ the fastest and most reliable servers out of the lot, a close second would be Sitehost (AU/NZ Only). On the other end of the scale, the least reliable services we've experienced is easily those hosted on Azure where constant network issues, unreliable performance and random unexplained outages are frequent. Rackspace used to be good, going back say 2 or so years ago, then it felt like they were struggling although their technology far exceeded that of AWS - Amazon's marketing and targeting of management level sales seemed to outweigh and caused them to buckle.
- joedicastro 10y agoThanks for share this! You know, this is the kind of of knowledge that we all like to have, but even then, all we have is your word (I don't have any reason to doubt it), what I tried to share here is a way to back all of that (at least performance, reliability is a different kind of monster) with numbers.
- jazoom 10y agoLet me add my word. Vultr is powerful and reliable. Recently they cut their prices roughly in HALF. They were the best (IMHO) before that. Now it's not even a competition.
- h1d 10y agoLinode seems to provide pretty much exact same plans, but their control panel is a bit too geeky (you need a few extra steps to launch a OS because launching an instance means powering on an empty machine without a disk), touching Vultr control panel feels pretty easy. I just hope they both get block storage deployed on all their regions.
- joedicastro 10y agoLinode seems to be working in a new version of their control panel, I hope that they do a great work, because for too much people the current one is a entry barrier, even when they do a very good work.
- h1d 10y agoIs it possible to show some benchmarks? I suppose you mean by computational power but if it is by far the fastest, it should be trivial to bring up the differences in numbers.
- sdesol 10y agoI did a blog post last year that compared DigitalOcean, Vultr, and my 7 year old laptop for my Git indexing engine. Vultr performed better than DigitalOcean in all my tests. You can find the numbers at https://gitsense.com/blog/benchmarking-march-14-2016.html https://gitsense.com/blog/benchmarking-march-14-2016.html I probably should run the tests again to see how things have changed though.
- sdesol 10y agoSo I ran a few tests by indexing https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode and these were the results DO - $10 | Vultr - $5 | Vultr - $10 ----------------------------------- 00:38:59 | 00:31:58 | 00:29:43 Indexing produced 64 searchable branches and as the above shows, Vultr easily outperformed DigitalOcean, at half the price. Edit: To put the numbers into perspective, I ran another test in a virtual machine with VirtualBox on my local desktop and finished indexing in 00:21:29 I allocated 1 virtual core and 1 GB of RAM for the virtual machine. The desktop processor is an i5-4460 @3.20GHz
- h1d 10y agoThanks for the numbers. As Vultr and Linode provide double the memory and other benefits for same price as DO, unless DO provides better plans, it's becoming a bit of a joke concerning raw performance / $.
- kureikain 10y agoI second this. Vult is the best in cheap. I run an uptime monitoring service, the box on `vultr` never has any issue despite they are just $2.5 per month
- ReverseCold 10y agoThe $2.50 boxes are permanently "out of stock" for me.
- joedicastro 10y agoFor me too, I think that is general, I hope.
- tantantan 10y agoHOPEEEE