SMsmarx007·Nov 25, 2020
First time hearing about Cloud-Mercato. https://vpsranking.com/en/ is something I have seen before and https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench/wiki/VPS-Hosts allows the results to be replicated.
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Benchmarks VPS perfomance
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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6 sourcesCan you run https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench and see how the performance is to compare?
In The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much moreVPSBench result:
Before
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CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz
Number of cores: 8
CPU frequency: 2266.788 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 988 MB
Total amount of swap: 255 MB
System uptime: 8 days, 12:03,
I/O speed: 69.9 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 8.96s
Download 100MB file: 47.2MB/s
After
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CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
Number of cores: 2
CPU frequency: 2800.086 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 1993 MB
Total amount of swap: 255 MB
System uptime: 2 min,
I/O speed: 638 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 5.10s
Download 100MB file: 146MB/s
Test: https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench
In The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much moreYou can check these benchmark results with other options:
https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench/wiki/VPS-Hosts
In Ask HN: Alternatives to DigitalOcean?DigitalOcean is good value but I found their I/O speed not anywhere close to SSD levels. I ran this bench mark from github. RamNode is the best.
https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench
In Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks