DigitalOcean 1GB $10, December 21st 2014
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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the 1GB $10 VPS plan of DigitalOcean. VPSBenchmarks bought, setup the server and started the tests.
On this page, you'll find:
- Price and specifications for the 1GB $10 plan.
- The grades that summarize its performance in 5 categories based on the benchmarks results.
- Links to the detailed benchmarks results that can be compared to other providers and other plans.
| Provider | Plan | Monthly price | Hourly billing | Num CPU cores | Memory (GB) | Disk space (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | 1GB $10 |
$10.00
Copied from plan. |
Yes | 1 | 1 | 30 |
| Datacenter | CPU type | CPU details | OS, Kernel and Virtualization | Data transfer (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York 3 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz |
Frequency: 2.4 GHz |
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 3.13.0 KVM |
2000 |
Note: the CPU details Frequency is the frequency observed at the start of the trial. It may vary as the trial progresses.
Test Results
- Web Runs: performance of a web application running on the server with locally generated load. Latencies and max request rate.
- Sysbench: CPU, disk IO and memory speed tests.
- Endurance: output over time of a long running cpu intensive application.
- Network Transfers: maximum HTTP download and upload speeds between the VPS and servers located nearby.
- Yabs: test suite that includes Geekbench CPU tests, Fio for disk IO and Iperf3 for network transfers.
- Live Web Tests: latencies of a web application with live traffic.
Live Web
Web performance is measured locally on the VPS and includes Rails app response times to live web traffic as well as system metrics.
Review and compare DigitalOcean - 1GB $10 web performance with other cloud providers.
DigitalOcean Coupons
This provider offers the following coupon:
Link: https://m.do.co/c/f6f1f383e46f
Value: $200
Sign up using the following link and get $200 credit over 60 days.
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50ms: that's the average response time of vpsbenchmarks test website during the 2 week trial that ended on January 3rd on DigitalOcean $10 plan. That's just in the middle of the pack but pretty close to the fastest solutions available out there. All numbers are available on the trial page.
No outage of any kind to report, it was smooth sailing. As usual, the instance creation process was fast and straightforward.
Compared to the previous test we ran back in June on the same DO plan, the response time was improved 50%.
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