Compare Provider Features

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Datacenter Countries

The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.

Alibaba Cloud ORACLE Cloud
Australia
China
Germany
India
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Germany
India
Japan
Netherlands
Saudi Arabia
South Korea
Switzerland
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States

Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price in plans tested at vpsbenchmarks.com will be marked as missing.

Alibaba Cloud ORACLE Cloud
Hourly Billing  Mixed Yes
DDOS Protection  Yes Yes
Backups  Yes No
Control Panel  Custom Custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  24 20
Number of Datacenter Continents  4 4
Monitoring Charts  Yes Yes
Admin REST API  Yes No
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes No
Mobile Friendly UI  No No
Reverse DNS  No No
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal, Alipay Credit cards
Hidden CPU Model  No No
Affiliate Program  Yes No
Firewall  Yes No
Shelving  No No

Extra Services

Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.

Alibaba Cloud ORACLE Cloud
Backups  -  Instance backups or snapshots
Block storage  -  Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Object storage  -  Data storage for objects, individual files with API access
Load balancer  -  Distribute traffic across set of instances
Floating IP addresses  -  Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Team Management  -  Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account
Managed databases  -  Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ...
Serverless  -  Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs
DDoS protection  -  Distributed Denial of Service protection
Kubernetes  -  Management of Docker containers
GPU instances  -  GPU instances to run your AI workload
Private network  -  Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider

Stengths & Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
Alibaba Cloud
  • Numerous datacenter locations.
  • Large catalog of cloud services.
  • Varying pricing depending on location.
  • Complex, hard to use UI.
ORACLE Cloud
  • Indecipherable pricing.

Performance Comparisons

Compare the performance of the 2 selected providers.

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