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 | 30s | 25s | 35s | 3 |
| DigitalOcean | 35s | 30s | 40s | 2 |
| MoonQube | 37s | 25s | 70s | 10 |
| Katapult | 37s | 30s | 50s | 5 |
| Alibaba Cloud | 37s | 30s | 45s | 2 |
| HostHatch | 45s | 45s | 45s | 1 |
| Alwyzon | 47s | 25s | 70s | 7 |
| Microsoft Azure | 48s | 45s | 50s | 4 |
| ClawCloud | 50s | 40s | 60s | 2 |
| SalmonCloud | 55s | 40s | 70s | 2 |
| ORACLE Cloud | 55s | 50s | 60s | 2 |
| OVHcloud US | 57s | 30s | 80s | 6 |
| Hostman | 60s | 60s | 60s | 1 |
| Amazon Lightsail | 60s | 40s | 80s | 2 |
| LayerStack | 67s | 50s | 80s | 4 |
| UpCloud | 69s | 50s | 90s | 12 |
| Linode | 73s | 60s | 90s | 7 |
| Clouding.io | 77s | 35s | 300s | 12 |
| Google Compute Engine | 78s | 35s | 160s | 3 |
| Genesis Public Cloud | 78s | 40s | 180s | 11 |
| Vultr | 88s | 70s | 130s | 12 |
| Snakecraft Hosting | 99s | 25s | 200s | 9 |
| IBM Cloud | 100s | 100s | 100s | 1 |
| servinga | 102s | 30s | 340s | 12 |
| Evoxt | 105s | 80s | 140s | 7 |
| Hostinger | 116s | 45s | 240s | 13 |
| PQ.Hosting | 120s | 120s | 120s | 1 |
| Linkdata.com | 120s | 120s | 120s | 1 |
| 1Gbits | 123s | 80s | 170s | 3 |
| Fasthosts | 130s | 130s | 130s | 1 |
| Evolution Host Ltd | 141s | 60s | 300s | 12 |
| VPS Mart | 150s | 30s | 240s | 3 |
| Cherry Servers | 150s | 130s | 180s | 9 |
| netcup | 150s | 120s | 180s | 2 |
| Hivelocity | 161s | 110s | 210s | 8 |
| Aruba Cloud | 171s | 60s | 320s | 12 |
| Server Optima | 175s | 110s | 270s | 4 |
| OnetSolutions | 182s | 90s | 300s | 12 |
| Webyne | 190s | 190s | 190s | 1 |
| IONOS | 220s | 55s | 780s | 11 |
| ScalaHosting | 238s | 45s | 1200s | 11 |
| RoseHosting | 244s | 80s | 600s | 11 |
| Kamatera | 278s | 110s | 520s | 12 |
| MonoVM | 479s | 75s | 2040s | 5 |
| Togglebox | 497s | 50s | 2520s | 12 |
| OVHcloud | 523s | 45s | 1560s | 12 |
| BuyVM | 600s | 600s | 600s | 1 |
| HostUp | 1176s | 25s | 8400s | 8 |
| Verpex | 17800s | 2700s | 39600s | 4 |
| Contabo | 18614s | 120s | 219600s | 12 |