There is routine 10x variation in disk performance between different VPS's on Linode. It's luck of the draw and performance will change (i.e. get worse) over t

There is routine 10x variation in disk performance between different VPS's on Linode. It's luck of the draw and performance will change (i.e. get worse) over time. You'd need to provision and benchmark a bunch of Linodes to get meaningful numbers. That's one of a dozen ways in which a VPS is not like a real server. 5 second benchmark which corresponds well to real-life disk performance: sysbench --test=fileio --file-fsync-freq=1 --file-num=1 \ --file-total-size=16384 --file-test-mode=rndwr run --max-time=10 \ | grep "Requests/sec"