VPS performance test: Amazon Lightsail vs. Digital Ocean vs. Linode vs. Scaleway vs. Server Mania
Severs tested for performance
I have tested the following servers:
(i) Amazon_Linux-512MB-Virginia-1 (LIghtsail)
512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD Amazon Linux Virginia, Zone B (us-east-1b)
(ii) Scaleway (Paris) (BareMetal server)
C2S – 4 Dedicated x86 64bit Cores, 8GB memory 50GB SSD Disk, 1 Flexible public IPv4, 300Mbit/s Internet bandwidth, 2.5Gbit/s Internal bandwidth
(iii) Scaleway (Amsterdam) (Cloud server)
2 x86 64bit Cores 2GB Memory 50GB SSD Disk 1 Flexible public IPv4 200Mbit/s Unmetered bandwidth
(iv) Ditial Ocean (Banglaore) 512 MB Memory / 20 GB Disk / BLR1 – CentOS 6.8 x64
(v) Linode (Singapore)
2 GB RAM, 1 CPU Core, 24 GB SSD Storage, 2 TB Transfer, 40 Gbps Network In, 125 Mbps Network Out (vi) Server Mania (Specials)
SSD Cached Linux
2 GB VPS
2 GB Guaranteed RAM
2 GB vSwap RAM
100 GB SSD RAID-10
4 IP Address
3 TB Bandwidth
100 Mbps Network Speed
Parameters of test of VPS performance
I have used the following code to test the performance of the VPS:
bash <(wget --no-check-certificate -O - https://raw.github.com/mgutz/vpsbench/master/vpsbench)
This test gives details of:
(i) The CPU,
(ii) The RAM,
(iii) The I/O (Input Output) speed;
(iv) The time to BZip a 25 MB file and
(iv) The download speed.
Test of Amazon_Linux-512MB-Virginia-1 (LIghtsail)
CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores: 1
CPU frequency: 2400.102 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 491 MB
Total amount of swap: 0 MB
System uptime: 2 days, 13:47,
I/O speed: 67.9 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 4.07s
Download 100MB file: 46.1MB/s
Test of Scaleway (BareMetal server)
CPU model: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2550 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores: 4
CPU frequency: 2394.002 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 7939 MB
Total amount of swap: MB
System uptime: 1:26,
I/O speed: 146 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
0.00s
Download 100MB file: 100MB/s
Test of Scaleway (Cloud server)
CPU model: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2750 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores: 2
CPU frequency: 2393.902 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 2002 MB
Total amount of swap: MB
System uptime: 14:03,
I/O speed: 174 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: /dev/fd/63: line 29: /usr/bin/time: No such file or directory
Download 100MB file: 106MB/s
Test of Digital Ocean
CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v3 @ 1.80GHz
Number of cores: 1
CPU frequency: 1799.998 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 490 MB
Total amount of swap: 1023 MB
System uptime: 9 days, 15:14,
I/O speed: 424 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 6.18s
Download 100MB file: 14.8MB/s
Test of Linode
CPU model: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2550 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores: 4
CPU frequency: 2394.002 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 7939 MB
Total amount of swap: MB
System uptime: 1:22,
I/O speed: 147 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
0.00s
Download 100MB file: 104MB/s
Test of Sever Mania
CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz
Number of cores: 2
CPU frequency: 2187.401 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 2048 MB
Total amount of swap: MB
System uptime: 5 days, 21:16,
I/O speed: 271 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 3.49s
Download 100MB file: 1.06MB/s
Server Mania’s download speed is very poor. There is a throttle being applied though it is not disclosed in the server details.