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VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
- RadixDLT 3y agoVultr seems to be the fastest, they have a great team
- kingofheroes 3y agoAre they all just AWS resellers?
- sitzkrieg 3y agoi dont think any of these companies resell aws infrastructure
- api 3y agoNone of them are. There’s no way you could make money doing that in the VPS market especially with the ludicrous bandwidth costs at AWS. Most VPS providers rent rack space at large colocation facilities in multiple cities. In some cases they locate right next to major peering points for very good peering and very cheap bandwidth. Vultr in particular is massively underrated and is certainly good enough to use in production. One caveat though: most of these providers don’t handle sanitization of storage or encryption at rest as thoroughly as the big clouds do. I’d recommend handling your own encryption at rest with these if you have sensitive data. See: Vault, LUKS, etc.
- whateveracct 3y agoDigital Ocean does offer managed Postgres with encryption in transit and at rest. I had a nice experience with their Postgres offering. They also have an S3 equivalent (spaces) and managed Redis.
- dijksterhuis 3y agonit pick: Spaces is not an AWS S3 equivalent -- compatibility matrix vs. S3: https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/spaces-api/#aws-s3-compatibility https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/spaces-api/#aws-...
- blowski 3y agoIt doesn’t have full feature parity, but as the post you shared says, they “aim for full interoperability with S3”. If you have an S3 client doing basic object storage stuff, it will work fine with Spaces.
- dijksterhuis 3y agoEh, not Apache Spark <--> Spaces. Doesn't work out the box unlike Spark <--> AWS S3. See other child comment above. Faster to use AWS S3 instead of trying to fix it (IIRC can't set the endpoint url or something, which is required for Spaces). :shrug:
- blowski 3y agoI appreciate I'm making a "No True Scotsman" point, but Spark isn't really "a typical S3 client doing basic object storage stuff". I'm thinking of your standard web app persisting uploads and static files.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoI think it’s fair to not call it equivalent because of that, but it’s also fair to acknowledge what is unsupported is pretty power user level stuff for the most part. I used spaces in s3 compatibility for a few use cases and never ran into the problem that what I was trying to do was unsupported. Granted I was not trying to do fancy things, but still. Some examples of things that I used the S3 compat for that worked just fine: - terraform backend - velero backups - log store for prometheus/promtail - docker pull through cache
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- kazanz 3y agoIt’s actually the opposite. AWS will run on top of other hosting providers for some services and regions. That’s why you’re paying so much for AWS.
- thelostpotato 3y agoThis could not be more incorrect. Stop spread BS and read up some before commenting thinks you obviously have no idea about.
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- ehPReth 3y agowait, what?
- miniman1337 3y agothis is not correct in the slightest
- threeseed 3y agoNo. You're paying so much because (a) they make a lot of money ($20bn yearly profit) and (b) they have an extremely large headcount which are building the large number of services they provide. Never heard of them running on other providers though. Surely that would a problem for all of the compliance e.g. HIPAA, FIPS ?
- kazanz 3y agoBoth A and B are true. But that doesn't preclude them from still charging a heavy premium over other providers in the market. Which is exactly what is happening, the raw COGS of operating a provider are dramatically lower than the prices they charge.
- Ms-J 3y agoCould you elaborate further on what you're saying about running on top of other providers?
- 8organicbits 3y agoInteresting benchmark script [1], but the post really would benefit from a comparison table or graphs. https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
- adamzochowski 3y agoWhy not ovh's option called kimsufi or not Hetzner?
- berkle4455 3y agoHetzner was likely excluded because they have a habit of preventing signups, randomly banning accounts, or blackholing traffic exactly when your app is taking off because their shitty tech thinks your system was compromised or under a DDOS attack.
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- this_was_posted 3y agoIs this anecdotal or based on widespread publicly available evidence? Not meant as an accusation, but it’s the first time I’m hearing this and it’s slightly alarming
- candiddevmike 3y agoI run bursty workloads on Hetzner, never had an issue.
- jbverschoor 3y agoTbh, many comments here are FUD and downvotes by big tech employees. And somehow DO is HN’s little baby or something. They did have great ads during their launch period. Hertzner is pretty great
- berkle4455 3y agoWhy in the world do you think “big tech” would single out one shitty German hosting company not even covered by the post in question, and I can't just be one pissed off ex-customer warning others to stay far away? Hetzner is pretty terrible.
- Alifatisk 3y agoWish they covered Scaleway!
- Ayesh 3y agoI use Vultr, Digital Ocean, and Scaleway quite extensively, and my personal anecdote is the Scaleway, while gives a great bang for buck, comes with disk speed issues in their low priced servers.
- andrewstuart 3y agoI’d like stats included for running on a locally hosted fast modern machine.
- coder543 3y agoAm I the only one seeing some very weird kerning in the text on that site? Switching to my browser's reader mode makes the site more legible for me.
- calvinmorrison 3y agono, because I disable webfonts like a normal person.
- layer8 3y agoThere’s no kerning, it’s just monospace. Yes, monospace fonts are less comfortable to read prose in.
- Klonoar 3y agoWould be interested in seeing Katapult thrown into the mix. They're more expensive but I've found them to be overall very good. http://katapult.io/ http://katapult.io/
- KomoD 3y agoYABS for that here: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3421306/#Comment_3421306 https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3421306/#Comment_3...
- just_mc 3y agoFor shared CPU VPS, the biggest problem is noisy neighbors. Running a test for a few minutes on a single machinge probably doesn't tell you much. The machine on one provider might be experiencing more load than a similar machine at a different provider, biasing the results. That being said, Vultr has been good for our purposes.
- asadawadia 3y agoadded raspberry pi's results too
- Macha 3y ago> Linode had the slowest cpus at just under 2Ghz Uhh, a statement like this somewhat hurts the ability to trust the other claims of the benchmark. Sure, Linode has the lowest clock speed, but you're comparing Epyc Milan which is almost a decade newer than the Sandy-Bridge EP of Cloudfanatic for example. Unsurprisingly, this is even reflected in the one cpu benchmark run, geekbench, which Linode comes first in.
- capableweb 3y ago> Uhh, a statement like this somewhat hurts the ability to trust the other claims of the benchmark. Why? > Sure, Linode has the lowest clock speed, but you're comparing Epyc Milan which is almost a decade newer than the Sandy-Bridge EP of Cloudfanatic for example. Sure, but also take into consideration that the Linode instance costs $48/month while the Cloudfanatic one costs $18/month. Both of them have the same amount of CPU cores too. Seems like this is a Linode problem of offering old hardware, instead of a problem with the benchmark itself.
- mrelectric 3y agoYou need to re read op.
- icelight 3y ago> Seems like this is a Linode problem of offering old hardware, instead of a problem with the benchmark itself. Linode has the newest hardware, and the highest single- and multi-core speeds despite the lowest clocks. Mentioning the higher clock speeds instead of the benchmarks is pointless and very misleading.
- denotational 3y ago> Why? I’m not the GP, but I agree with the sentiment. Clock speed alone is a spectacularly bad metric to use for a summary result regarding relative performance of different CPUs. If one wants to assess performance on a workload of integer addition/subtraction with a linear chain of data dependencies on a working set that fits in the L1, then sure, clock speed will correlate strongly with performance (in practically every metric other than maybe power). On the other hand the performance of a lot of real-world workloads will be influenced by things like the number of execution units per core, the types of operations they perform, the throughput of various instructions, the specifics of the front end (e.g. assuming x86/CISC, the types of uops; the size of the BTB; the branch-prediction algorithm), the size of the various caches (TLBs in addition to I$ and D$), the specifics of the coherency protocol, the memory bandwidth, etc. All that to say that CPUs should be compared by benchmark results, not blind comparisons of clock speed, and so to quote clock speed in a summary might lead one to question the rest of the results.
- proxiful-wash 3y agolol who owns cloudfanatic? did they put together their infrastructure with cheats?
- woofcat 3y agoThe pricing here always confused me. I thought VPS's were supposed to be cheaper than hardware. At $50+/month you're into dedicated pricing in my mind.
- distortionfield 3y agoGone are the days where a $5 server can do anything but run a static site
- qeternity 3y agoWhat? Hetzner will sell you a 1c / 2gb instance for $5/mo and you can do an incredible amount with that. 99% of people’s side projects can run on that. Hell, plenty of startups could run on that.
- distortionfield 3y agoYMMV, but this doesn’t pass the smell test for me. modest sized projects will freeze a $5 droplet during an install and build for me. I’ve tried across multiple providers. DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr. Tried all of them, and a $5 droplet can’t handle anything but a static site IMO. I don’t disagree a startup can go far on a small droplet but inflation has made $5 droplets too slow to be useful IME.
- ahofmann 3y agoA $5 instance runs almost any php stack just fine. Even if they have a build process.
- qeternity 3y agoWhat do you mean? There are no specifics here.
- axelthegerman 3y agoYou should give hetzner a try. Definitely much better value (on paper at least) and so far been working flawlessly for me. Would appreciate some more voices on noisy neighbors at hetzner though as that's always the bigger problem of VPS than the promises they make