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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by smcleod on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @10:06AM (#14246384)

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.

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by joedicastro on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:02PM (#14247532)

Thanks 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.

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by jazoom on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:16PM (#14250696)

Let 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.

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by h1d on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:00AM (#14253178)

Linode 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.

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by joedicastro on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:14AM (#14253449)

Linode 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.

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by kureikain on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @06:40PM (#14251314)

I 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

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by ReverseCold on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @06:45PM (#14251348)

The $2.50 boxes are permanently "out of stock" for me.

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by joedicastro on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @06:46PM (#14251355)

For me too, I think that is general, I hope.

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by h1d on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:06PM (#14250591)

Is 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.

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by sdesol on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @07:31PM (#14251670)

I 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

I probably should run the tests again to see how things have changed though.

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by sdesol on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:07AM (#14252961)

So I ran a few tests by indexing https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode and these were the results

   DO - $10  | Vultr - $5 | Vultr - $10
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   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

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Re:Show HN: VPS Comparison – Automated tests to compare VPS ... by h1d on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:55AM (#14253152)

Thanks 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 / $.

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