$5/month: DigitalOcean vs Vultr

Tools: dd, sysbench, stress-ng. I know,  you’d say they are NOT benchmark tools. I don’t care, I just need quick tests.

Here we go:

dd write bs=4k count=10k   100k  1M
do:                  350   465   424 MB/s
vultr:               699   538   466 MB/s
dd read bs=4k
do:    475 MB/s
vultr: 2.7 GB/s
sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=10000 run
do:    14.2562 sec.
vultr: 13.7561 sec.
stress-ng --cpu 1 --cpu-method all -t 30
do:    154.15 ops/sec
vultr: 186.38 ops/sec

/me .. goes vultr.