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 | Median Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GS WEBSERVICES | 20s | 20s | 20s | 20s | 1 |
| Hetzner | 25s | 25s | 25s | 25s | 1 |
| BrainHost | 25s | 25s | 25s | 25s | 1 |
| Scaleway | 30s | 30s | 25s | 35s | 2 |
| Hexabyte | 30s | 30s | 20s | 40s | 5 |
| Amazon AWS | 31s | 30s | 20s | 45s | 3 |
| LiaSail | 40s | 40s | 40s | 40s | 1 |
| Raff | 40s | 40s | 40s | 40s | 1 |
| Alibaba Cloud | 40s | 40s | 40s | 40s | 1 |
| HostUp | 42s | 40s | 25s | 60s | 9 |
| Amazon Lightsail | 45s | 45s | 30s | 60s | 2 |
| DigitalOcean | 45s | 45s | 45s | 45s | 1 |
| VPSLab | 50s | 50s | 50s | 50s | 2 |
| Bacloud | 50s | 50s | 50s | 50s | 1 |
| Google Compute Engine | 50s | 40s | 40s | 70s | 3 |
| Togglebox | 52s | 50s | 20s | 120s | 12 |
| HostHatch | 60s | 60s | 60s | 60s | 1 |
| ScalaHosting | 61s | 60s | 30s | 100s | 11 |
| BlastVPS | 67s | 62s | 25s | 120s | 4 |
| ORACLE Cloud | 68s | 60s | 55s | 90s | 3 |
| Microsoft Azure | 70s | 60s | 50s | 100s | 3 |
| Alwyzon | 73s | 65s | 30s | 120s | 6 |
| LayerStack | 75s | 75s | 70s | 80s | 2 |
| Hostman | 75s | 80s | 60s | 90s | 7 |
| Database Mart | 79s | 50s | 30s | 190s | 5 |
| Genesis Public Cloud | 79s | 60s | 30s | 170s | 13 |
| Linode | 80s | 80s | 80s | 80s | 1 |
| OVHcloud US | 89s | 70s | 45s | 240s | 8 |
| UpCloud | 90s | 100s | 45s | 110s | 13 |
| Vultr | 95s | 90s | 30s | 260s | 11 |
| RackGenius | 98s | 90s | 60s | 240s | 12 |
| MonoVM | 102s | 95s | 50s | 170s | 12 |
| Contabo | 105s | 90s | 25s | 210s | 12 |
| Clouding.io | 108s | 60s | 45s | 360s | 12 |
| RAKsmart | 110s | 110s | 100s | 120s | 2 |
| IONOS | 112s | 90s | 60s | 180s | 11 |
| Godlike.host | 120s | 120s | 120s | 120s | 1 |
| Bluehost | 120s | 120s | 120s | 120s | 1 |
| Linkdata.com | 120s | 120s | 120s | 120s | 1 |
| TakeHost.Biz | 123s | 120s | 100s | 150s | 3 |
| Hostinger | 153s | 140s | 40s | 360s | 12 |
| Server Optima | 155s | 150s | 35s | 240s | 13 |
| Aruba Cloud | 166s | 125s | 80s | 600s | 12 |
| HostArmada | 175s | 175s | 150s | 200s | 2 |
| Fasthosts | 176s | 175s | 120s | 250s | 6 |
| Kamatera | 178s | 160s | 110s | 315s | 12 |
| dogado | 186s | 150s | 90s | 300s | 5 |
| Nobull Networks | 196s | 205s | 120s | 240s | 6 |
| 0ping.eu | 257s | 64s | 60s | 840s | 4 |
| Evoxt | 293s | 160s | 120s | 600s | 6 |
| BlueVPS | 400s | 400s | 400s | 400s | 1 |
| Evolution Host Ltd | 404s | 115s | 40s | 3300s | 12 |
| Cherry Servers | 476s | 140s | 75s | 4000s | 12 |
| Melbicom | 522s | 540s | 120s | 960s | 5 |
| OVHcloud | 817s | 780s | 35s | 3240s | 11 |
| Hivelocity | 1536s | 200s | 110s | 14400s | 13 |
| Unihost | 2020s | 2520s | 1020s | 2520s | 3 |
| OnetSolutions | 2290s | 180s | 80s | 25000s | 12 |
| Webyne | 4200s | 4200s | 4200s | 4200s | 1 |
| 1Gbits | 4906s | 120s | 60s | 57600s | 12 |
| Leaseweb | 19030s | 3000s | 90s | 54000s | 3 |
| Verpex | 29297s | 22550s | 90s | 72000s | 4 |