During each VPS trial, we recorded the time it took for the VPS to start accepting connections after it was ordered. Sometimes, the instance provisioning was delayed by billing shenanigans: those delays are excluded from the numbers below.
All numbers below are numbers of seconds.
Provider | Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon EC2 | 15s | 10s | 25s | 3 |
Google Compute Engine | 27s | 20s | 35s | 2 |
Hetzner | 30s | 25s | 35s | 3 |
MoonQube | 31s | 25s | 40s | 4 |
Scaleway | 31s | 30s | 35s | 3 |
Katapult | 32s | 30s | 35s | 2 |
DigitalOcean | 42s | 40s | 45s | 2 |
Alibaba Cloud | 45s | 30s | 60s | 2 |
Amazon Lightsail | 50s | 40s | 60s | 2 |
Atlantic.Net | 50s | 50s | 50s | 1 |
Clouding.io | 52s | 35s | 110s | 12 |
ORACLE Cloud | 55s | 50s | 60s | 2 |
Microsoft Azure | 55s | 50s | 65s | 3 |
HostHatch | 56s | 35s | 110s | 5 |
UpCloud | 57s | 45s | 90s | 12 |
BuyVM | 60s | 60s | 60s | 1 |
IBM Cloud | 60s | 20s | 100s | 2 |
Genesis Public Cloud | 64s | 40s | 180s | 12 |
Alwyzon | 70s | 40s | 120s | 7 |
Akamai | 72s | 60s | 90s | 9 |
LayerStack | 73s | 60s | 80s | 3 |
MonoVM | 75s | 75s | 75s | 1 |
OVHcloud US | 81s | 45s | 170s | 5 |
Evoxt | 87s | 80s | 100s | 7 |
EVLBOX | 90s | 90s | 90s | 1 |
TransIP | 90s | 60s | 120s | 4 |
Snakecraft Hosting | 106s | 100s | 120s | 3 |
Hostinger | 120s | 45s | 200s | 9 |
Evolution Host Ltd | 132s | 70s | 180s | 12 |
Vultr | 137s | 30s | 360s | 11 |
HostUp | 150s | 60s | 240s | 2 |
netcup | 150s | 120s | 180s | 2 |
Hivelocity | 155s | 130s | 180s | 2 |
Aruba Cloud | 169s | 30s | 320s | 12 |
Cherry Servers | 180s | 160s | 220s | 7 |
RackNerd | 180s | 180s | 180s | 1 |
INET.WS | 202s | 45s | 260s | 5 |
ScalaHosting | 208s | 25s | 1200s | 13 |
VPS2DAY | 222s | 35s | 360s | 12 |
IONOS | 252s | 50s | 780s | 12 |
Profvds | 260s | 260s | 260s | 1 |
Kamatera | 277s | 220s | 400s | 12 |
Linkdata.com | 285s | 60s | 900s | 4 |
RoseHosting | 317s | 90s | 600s | 11 |
LinuxCloudVPS | 345s | 110s | 600s | 4 |
OVHcloud | 540s | 45s | 1560s | 11 |
OnetSolutions | 925s | 80s | 9000s | 12 |
Togglebox | 1543s | 150s | 12000s | 11 |
Fybe | 14380s | 60s | 28700s | 2 |
Contabo | 22851s | 240s | 219600s | 11 |