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Instance Type: Premium
This plan belongs to the Akamai Premium server line (Compute optimized).
Instance Type Description
Minimum hardware model for consistent performance on dedicated resources. Premium instances provide the highest level of performance for CPU intensive or latency sensitive workloads running on Linode's best available AMD Epyc™ processors.
Instance Type Specifications
| Approximate Cost per vCPU | Between $21.50 and $21.62 |
| Approximate RAM per vCPU | 2.0GB |
| Hourly billing | yes |
| CPU type | AMD |
| Shared CPU | no |
| Storage included | yes |
See also all Akamai instance types.
"Premium 8GB" Plan Specifications
| Provider | Akamai |
|---|---|
| Plan URL | https://www.linode.com/pricing/ |
| Price per month | $86.00 |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Hourly Billing | Yes: $0.1300/hour |
| Disk GB | 160 |
| Num Cores | 4 |
| Memory GB | 8 |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | 5000 |
| Maximum Network Speed | 5000 Mbps |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated CPU | Yes |
Badges of Quality
Badges are awards granted to VPS plans that meet certain quality criteria.
| Stable Performance | Akamai - Premium 8GB performance is very stable over long periods of time | |
|---|---|---|
| Fast Storage Speed | Akamai - Premium 8GB storage read+write storage speed goes over 3000 MiB/s |
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Akamai - Premium 8GB. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
| Yabs | Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Review | Review | Review | Review | Review |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
Performance trials run on the Premium 8GB plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Premium 8GB plan with its grade and CPU type.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24 2023 | AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor | Paris, France | C |