This Feb, Linode releases new plans (Dedicated CPU VPS plans, which means the CPUs run on KVM host without sharing to other neighbors). So I make this benchmark to show how good it is compared with DigitalOcean (DO) in the same plan.
Price
Linode's price has 25% lower than DO's.
Linode price
DigitalOcean price
Boot time
Linode VPS boots a bit slower than DO. (115 processes vs 96 processes)
Benchmark
I used this script (https://github.com/n-st/nench) to benchmark the minimum plan (2 vCPUs and 4GB RAM). I configured vm.swappiness = 0 to disable swap.
Linode
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz
CPU cores: 2
Frequency: 2499.984 MHz
RAM: 3.9G
Swap: 511M
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-43-generic x86_64
Disks:
sda 24.5G HDD
sdb 512M HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
3.339 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
5.649 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
1.535 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 60.1 us / 87.6 us / 8.98 ms / 104.1 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 25.2 k requests in 5.00 s, 6.15 GiB, 5.04 k iops, 1.23 GiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 953.67 MiB/s
2nd run: 1239.78 MiB/s
3rd run: 1144.41 MiB/s
average: 1112.62 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 139.162.5.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 54.08 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 6.64 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 3.18 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 1.74 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 0.29 MiB/s
IPv6 speedtests
your IPv6: 2400:8901::xxxx
Leaseweb (NL): 5.60 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 0.00 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 10.43 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 0.85 MiB/s
-------------------------------------------------Digital Ocean
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8168 CPU @ 2.70GHz
CPU cores: 2
Frequency: 2693.670 MHz
RAM: 3.9G
Swap: -
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64
Disks:
vda 25G HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
2.427 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
4.252 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
0.964 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 114.8 us / 185.5 us / 4.33 ms / 48.3 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 4.13 k requests in 5.00 s, 1.01 GiB, 826 iops, 206.6 MiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 410.08 MiB/s
2nd run: 386.24 MiB/s
3rd run: 417.71 MiB/s
average: 404.68 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 178.128.214.xxxx
Cachefly CDN: 13.14 MiB/s
Leaseweb (NL): 13.56 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 7.82 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 9.86 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 0.44 MiB/s
IPv6 speedtests
your IPv6: 2400:6180:0:xxxx
Leaseweb (NL): 9.57 MiB/s
Softlayer DAL (US): 0.00 MiB/s
Online.net (FR): 4.95 MiB/s
OVH BHS (CA): 0.30 MiB/s
-------------------------------------------------Conclusion
DigitalOcean allows you run on newer hardwares so its CPU is better (~43%) than Linode's. (You can compare the result in CPU hashing section). By the way, Linode has the better price so it's your choices! :)
Hope Linode will upgrade all hardwares soon. Updated : they have new CPUs in some datacenters which are Intel Xeon Gold 6148 and AMD EPYC 7501, so stay tuned!
