DigitalOcean, Vultr and Hetzner - Benchmarked each plan!

cyberduck · July 2020

Hi guys,

This is my first post!

I have benchmarked most VPS plans on DigitalOcean, Vultr and Hetzner.

Here are my results:

Benchmark comand used:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script/master/yabs.sh | bash

Hope you find this interesting and useful.

Cyberduck

edit:
12/07/2020 - Vultr High Frequency plans have been added!
14/07/2020 - Hostworld.uk VPS-3 added

seriesn · July 2020

Is this @cybertech or @cyberduck now I am truly confused!!

cyberduck · July 2020

@seriesn said:
Is this @cybertech or @cyberduck now I am truly confused!!

Just a new dude on LES!

Not related to @cybertech

sureiam · July 2020

Neat. Would be great if put into excel and then charted

seriesn · July 2020

@cyberduck said:

@seriesn said:
Is this @cybertech or @cyberduck now I am truly confused!!

Just a new dude on LES!

Not related to @cybertech

DAMN! Welcome to the gang yo! Now I can no longer call him Cyberduck .Sad day.

MaxKVM · July 2020

This is seriously impressive if this is a full disk write (no caching).. which might be possible with Hetzner.

@cyberduck said: Hetzner €35.88: https://bin.privacytools.io/?eb52d24fb0cdca25#ORHUTFiiUYXDRr1zBjdNX6u0vZQHvLY4v8iu29ozguU=

Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 3.81 GB/s     (7.4k) | 4.04 GB/s     (3.9k)
Write      | 4.02 GB/s     (7.8k) | 4.31 GB/s     (4.2k)
Total      | 7.83 GB/s    (15.3k) | 8.35 GB/s     (8.1k)

evnix · July 2020

@cyberduck said: Hope you find this interesting and useful.

Vultr with all its marketing about high frequency CPUs seems to perform worse than Hetzner.

cyberduck · July 2020

@evnix said:

@cyberduck said: Hope you find this interesting and useful.

Vultr with all its marketing about high frequency CPUs seems to perform worse than Hetzner.

Must be marketing bollocks!

I personally run a VPS with Vultr, the host node died for 5 mins, twice within 48 hours!

I also have a Hetzner VPS, with 100% uptime (created 2 months ago). It's a shame they only operate in the Germany and Finland.

poppz · July 2020

Thank you for this! Was recently looking to perform this myself but no longer necessary \o/

Won't beat @seriesn amazingly performant VPS' though, for even less money :)

cybertech · July 2020

HAHAHAHAHAHA

corbpie · July 2020

@evnix said:

@cyberduck said: Hope you find this interesting and useful.

Vultr with all its marketing about high frequency CPUs seems to perform worse than Hetzner.

OP did the old Vultr plans. Their new (always low stock now) High frequency plans spank the old shit.

Not exactly a apples to apples test OP

seriesn · July 2020

@cybertech said:
HAHAHAHAHAHA

You find it funny?

cybertech · July 2020

@seriesn said:

@cybertech said:
HAHAHAHAHAHA

You find it funny?

No sir no. Not the benchmarks for sure. They were nicely done

willie · July 2020

Thanks! Yes the vultr high frequency cpus are much faster than the regular ones. I'd also be interested in seeing the Hetzner EPYC plans.

Dazzle · July 2020

Great. Thanks for your effort. Interested to see Upcloud too on the list.

vimalware · July 2020

@willie said:
I'd also be interested in seeing the Hetzner EPYC plans.

They are listed. Check the 2nd one in hetzner list(4.19 eur incl VAT)

Impressive nvme on all hetzner

cyberduck · July 2020

I have now added the Vultr High Frequency plans for those interested.

willie · July 2020

Oh thanks, I looked only at the smallest and biggest Hetzner (both Intel) and didn't notice that the 2nd and 3rd were Epyc. There is quite a discrepancy in speed between the 2nd and 3rd. I wonder what is up with that. I'd be interested in seeing the biggest (16 vcore) Epyc if the expense is tolerable.

Having used both the regular and HF vultr instances I can say the HF are really snappy, much more than the 1.5x cpu benchmark difference makes it sound. They have very fast ssd's and at the time I tried them, the cpus were unloaded, at least on the small instances, so I was able to use a full core for a fairly long (maybe 1/2 hour) computation. Of course I'm sure a nonstop computation would have eventually gotten throttled.

Disput · July 2020

OP @cyberduck how about BENCH MONSTER?> @corbpie said:

@evnix said:

@cyberduck said: Hope you find this interesting and useful.

Vultr with all its marketing about high frequency CPUs seems to perform worse than Hetzner.

OP did the old Vultr plans. Their new (always low stock now) High frequency plans spank the old shit.

Not exactly a apples to apples test OP

Could you please share some benches like yabs and monster from a new vult plans please?

cyberduck · July 2020

@Disput

I have since added the new High Frequency Vultr plans.

Also just added a BIG MONSTER plan for your enjoyment!

havoc · July 2020

When is Hetzner starting in the US?

Hetzner_OL · July 2020

@havoc I'm not sure if we are ready for something like that...I think if we came to the US, there might be some reactions like...

-- Katie

Ouji · July 2020

@Hetzner_OL said:
@havoc I'm not sure if we are ready for something like that...I think if we came to the US, there might be some reactions like...

-- Katie

That's exactly how we would react, Katie!

Hetzner_OL · July 2020

Sorry. I have a zombie brain today apprently and accidentally posted the wrong thing here because I clicked on the wrong browser tab. --Katie

seriesn · July 2020

@Hetzner_OL said:
Sorry. I have a zombie brain today apprently and accidentally posted the wrong thing here because I clicked on the wrong browser tab. --Katie

Shame on you!!

moonswamp · July 2020

> @MaxKVM said: Block Size	512k (IOPS)	1m (IOPS)
Read	3.81 GB/s (7.4k)	4.04 GB/s (3.9k)
Write	4.02 GB/s (7.8k)	4.31 GB/s (4.2k)
Total	7.83 GB/s (15.3k)	8.35 GB/s (8.1k)

that's super fast NVMe disk

willie · July 2020

I don't think you can add the read and write iops/sec together and report the total as meaning anything. Averaging them together makes more sense. 7000+/s is still very fast for a cheap vps. I thought it was more usual to measure iops at 512 bytes rather than 512k though.

Mason · July 2020

@willie said:
I don't think you can add the read and write iops/sec together and report the total as meaning anything. Averaging them together makes more sense. 7000+/s is still very fast for a cheap vps. I thought it was more usual to measure iops at 512 bytes rather than 512k though.

The read and write tests are being done concurrently, not independently. Both are added together to get the full IOPS load the disk was under during the test.

Also, this test isn't really designed to show the absolutely maximum performance, but rather performance under somewhat real-world conditions.

willie · July 2020

Hmm, I'd want to see how that test works... maybe it is influenced somehow by caching. Otherwise, 16k/s = wow .

Mason · July 2020

@willie said:
Hmm, I'd want to see how that test works... maybe it is influenced somehow by caching. Otherwise, 16k/s = wow .

Shouldn't be affected by caching. Random read/writes and direct I/O flag on.

It uses fio. Check it out, it's pretty neat stuff

vimalware · July 2020

That reminds me. I need to go check up on my ultravps instance.
I'm curious to see how much of that 2 week old 4GB test file I created, is still present in the Host Node's ZFS ARC(ram).

5GB/s reads are a dead giveaway(even on nvme storage.)

DigitalOcean, Vultr and Hetzner - Benchmarked each plan!

DigitalOcean:

Vultr:

Vultr High Frequency

Hetzner:

Hostworld.uk

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