Linode Shared 2GB, September 2nd 2017

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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the Shared 2GB VPS plan of Linode. VPSBenchmarks bought, setup the server and started the tests.

On this page, you'll find:

  • Price and specifications for the Shared 2GB 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)
Linode Shared 2GB $12.00 Yes 1 2 50

Datacenter CPU type CPU details OS, Kernel and Virtualization Data transfer (GB)
Newark, NJ Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz Frequency:
2.5 GHz

Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

4.9.36

KVM

2000

Max bandwidth: 2000Mbps

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 Linode - Shared 2GB web performance with other cloud providers.

Sysbench

We ran Sysbench tests on this VPS, including CPU tests, random and sequential, read and write IO tests and memory tests.

Review and compare all Sysbench numbers for the Linode - Shared 2GB VPS plan.

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