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Private Trials: VPSBenchmarks on your Servers
February 20 2020
It is now possible to run the same benchmarks familiar to all visitors of vpsbenchmarks.com on your own servers. The new feature is called "Private Trials" and it's makes it possible to know how your servers measure up to every...
Vultr High Frequency Compute Instances
June 25 2019
On June 10th 2019, Vultr announced the launch of **high frequency** compute instances in a Twitter post.
The new instances are powered by high clock speed CPU's and NVMe local. Vultr claims geekbench 55% better performance, 3GHz cpus. In the...
Performance of burstable CPU VM instances
September 18 2018
Burstable CPUs VM instances appeared on Amazon EC2 for the first time in 2014. Since then, they have become ubiquitous at major providers in their entry level plans. The implementation varies between providers but the common denominator is that the...
Evaluating cloud server performance with sysbench
July 31 2018
Finding the best cloud servers for your use case can be challenging. Most providers offer a number of different configurations with varying amounts of resources to choose from. However, depending on your requirements, similar system specifications might not result in...
Amazon Lightsail 1GB is no match for $10 VPS from Linode, DO, Vultr...
December 06 2016
TLDR: Amazon Lightsail 1GB will melt down with less than 15% sustained cpu usage
Amazon Lightsail launched to much fanfare last week, threatening the business of competitors like DigitalOcean, Linode, OVH, Atlantic.net and many others who have long offered simple,...
