Vultr vs Linode vs Digitalocean: who has best CPU?

For many years, I’ve been testing virtual private servers for my business. you might have heard of Amazon ECS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud platforms. They are giant players of the world with pretty good service and stability, but they are so expensive for individual developers and small business.

I’ve tested many vps providers, ramnode, bandwagonhost, oneasiahost, sugarhosts, digitalocean, linode, and Vultr etc. some of them are rubbish, sometimes they allure you with lowest vps price and exciting server package, but in the end you have high chance to lose all your data.

but some of them provide versatile vps with reasonable price. I’ve been using Vultr, Digitalocean and Linode since the first day they stepped into vps industry. I still remember when Vultr announced their opening many years ago, you deposit 100 dollars, they give you 100 dollars in return, so you get $200 in your account. that’s the old golden days.

in this article, you will find some company background of each vps provider, then we will discuss what cpu models they use and CPU test results.

datacenter	Vultr(started 2014)	Linode(started 2003)	Digitalocean(started 2011)
America	Atlanta, Chicago, silicon valley, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Miami	Fremont, Dallas, Atlanta, Newark	New York, SanFrancisco, Toronto(Canada)
Europe	London, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt	London, Frankfurt	London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam
Asia	Tokyo, Singapore	Tokyo, Singapore, Mumbai(India)	Singapore, Bangalore(India)
Others	Sydney(Australia)

Linode was founded in 2003, It provides robust servers and is private owned by its founders and employees. Linode uses Xen as platform but changed to KVM two years ago. due to growing competitors, Linode doubled vps ram and bandwidth but kept average price. Payment methods also upgraded. You can buy Linode with either credit card or Paypal.

linode promo code：sixcolors ($20) 、DOCS10 、 LINODE10

Digitalocean was founded in 2011 and is sponsored by venture capitalists from USA. they provide vps mostly located in USA and Europe. all vps equipped with full KVM virtualization and SSD. digitalocean calls vps as droplet on their platform. Bulding a vps from Digitalocean is pretty fast,usually it takes 15 seconds.

digitalOcean promo code: $10

Pricing	Vultr	Linode	Digitalocean
$5/mo	25 GB SSD 1 CPU 1024MB Memory 1TB Bandwidth	25GB Storage 1 CPU Core 1GB Memory 1TB XFER	25 GB SSD 1 CPU 1GB Memory 1TB Bandwidth
$10/mo	40 GB SSD 1 CPU 2048MB Memory 2TB Bandwidth	50GB Storage 1 CPU Core 2GB Memory 2TB XFER	50 GB SSD 1 CPU 2GB Memory 2TB Bandwidth
$20/mo	60 GB SSD 2 CPU 4096MB Memory 3TB Bandwidth	80 GB Storage 2 CPU Cores 4GB Memory 4TB XFER	80 GB SSD 2CPU 4GB Memory 4TB Bandwidth

Disclaimer: Vultr has a plan for $2.50/mo with 20 GB SSD 1 CPU 512MB Memory 500GB Bandwidth. this plan always run out of stock(sold out).

Vultr started in 2014 as a child brand of Choopa LLC. so if you check vultr server IP, you get results showing Choopa LLC. all vps built with KVM virtualization technology. Vultr is a young competitor full of ambition. it has cheap price but with very powerful servers. Vultr also has the most data centers all over the world.

vultr promo code($10 or $25)：https://www.vultr.com/promo25b 、 SSDVPS

CPU model

what cpu models are in use by vultr, linode and digitalocean? let’s take a look:

	CPU	Single Thread Passmark
Vultr	Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3	1710
Linode	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz	1758
Digitalocean	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650L v3 @ 1.80GHz	1344

How powerful is it? Let’s run CPU benchmark: