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 | 26s | 10s | 45s | 4 |
Hetzner | 30s | 25s | 35s | 2 |
Scaleway | 32s | 30s | 35s | 2 |
DigitalOcean | 35s | 30s | 40s | 2 |
MoonQube | 36s | 25s | 70s | 9 |
Katapult | 37s | 30s | 50s | 5 |
Alibaba Cloud | 37s | 30s | 45s | 2 |
SalmonCloud | 40s | 40s | 40s | 1 |
Alwyzon | 45s | 25s | 60s | 7 |
HostHatch | 45s | 45s | 45s | 1 |
Microsoft Azure | 48s | 45s | 50s | 4 |
OVHcloud US | 53s | 30s | 70s | 5 |
ORACLE Cloud | 55s | 50s | 60s | 2 |
Hostman | 60s | 60s | 60s | 1 |
Amazon Lightsail | 60s | 40s | 80s | 2 |
LayerStack | 67s | 50s | 80s | 4 |
UpCloud | 67s | 50s | 90s | 12 |
Linode | 73s | 60s | 90s | 8 |
Clouding.io | 73s | 35s | 300s | 12 |
Genesis Public Cloud | 77s | 40s | 180s | 12 |
Google Compute Engine | 78s | 35s | 160s | 3 |
Vultr | 90s | 70s | 130s | 11 |
EVLBOX | 90s | 90s | 90s | 1 |
1Gbits | 100s | 80s | 120s | 2 |
IBM Cloud | 100s | 100s | 100s | 1 |
Linkdata.com | 100s | 100s | 100s | 1 |
Snakecraft Hosting | 100s | 25s | 200s | 8 |
Evoxt | 101s | 80s | 140s | 7 |
servinga | 102s | 30s | 340s | 12 |
Hostinger | 114s | 45s | 240s | 13 |
PQ.Hosting | 120s | 120s | 120s | 1 |
Evolution Host Ltd | 146s | 90s | 300s | 12 |
VPS Mart | 150s | 30s | 240s | 3 |
netcup | 150s | 120s | 180s | 2 |
Cherry Servers | 153s | 130s | 180s | 10 |
Hivelocity | 167s | 110s | 210s | 7 |
Aruba Cloud | 178s | 60s | 320s | 11 |
OnetSolutions | 182s | 90s | 300s | 12 |
Virtarix | 185s | 170s | 200s | 2 |
Server Optima | 186s | 110s | 270s | 3 |
Webyne | 190s | 190s | 190s | 1 |
ScalaHosting | 209s | 45s | 1200s | 13 |
IONOS | 223s | 55s | 780s | 11 |
RoseHosting | 254s | 80s | 600s | 12 |
Kamatera | 293s | 140s | 520s | 11 |
Togglebox | 497s | 50s | 2520s | 12 |
MonoVM | 576s | 75s | 2040s | 4 |
OVHcloud | 597s | 45s | 1560s | 12 |
BuyVM | 600s | 600s | 600s | 1 |
HostUp | 1176s | 25s | 8400s | 8 |
Contabo | 18614s | 120s | 219600s | 12 |
Verpex | 21900s | 2700s | 39600s | 3 |