During each VPS trial, we recorded the time it took for the VPS to start accepting connections after it was ordered. Sometimes, the instance provisioning was delayed by billing shenanigans: those delays are excluded from the numbers below.
All numbers below are numbers of seconds.
Provider | Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
---|---|---|---|---|
CloudSigma | 11s | 10s | 12s | 2 |
Atlantic.Net | 17s | 12s | 30s | 7 |
Hetzner | 19s | 10s | 50s | 8 |
Google Compute Engine | 19s | 12s | 30s | 9 |
DigitalOcean | 23s | 18s | 35s | 9 |
Amazon EC2 | 23s | 10s | 50s | 10 |
Scaleway | 30s | 25s | 45s | 8 |
Ramnode | 31s | 20s | 50s | 7 |
Alibaba Cloud | 40s | 20s | 70s | 8 |
MaxKVM | 41s | 25s | 60s | 4 |
Amazon Lightsail | 47s | 20s | 90s | 9 |
Linode | 50s | 35s | 70s | 9 |
LunaNode | 54s | 15s | 170s | 9 |
Genesis Public Cloud | 56s | 27s | 90s | 5 |
Genesis VMs | 60s | 45s | 80s | 6 |
Clouding.io | 61s | 40s | 75s | 12 |
OVHcloud | 62s | 20s | 180s | 9 |
UpCloud | 64s | 30s | 140s | 13 |
Alwyzon | 65s | 40s | 90s | 2 |
Vultr | 66s | 30s | 120s | 13 |
Dreamhost | 70s | 20s | 180s | 5 |
IBM Cloud | 70s | 60s | 80s | 2 |
Hostwinds | 75s | 60s | 90s | 2 |
Microsoft Azure | 120s | 70s | 230s | 8 |
ArticHost | 140s | 140s | 140s | 1 |
IONOS by 1&1 | 171s | 45s | 612s | 12 |
Aruba Cloud | 193s | 125s | 240s | 13 |
Hostinger | 200s | 200s | 200s | 1 |
Kamatera | 210s | 80s | 540s | 12 |
Vpsdime | 266s | 60s | 480s | 5 |
VPS2DAY | 293s | 160s | 400s | 10 |
Togglebox | 330s | 210s | 480s | 3 |
IO Zoom | 600s | 600s | 600s | 1 |
LayerStack | 626s | 30s | 3000s | 5 |
Contabo | 1755s | 1200s | 3900s | 8 |
A2 Hosting | 10800s | 10800s | 10800s | 1 |
BuyVM | 19397s | 30s | 70000s | 4 |
Bluehost | 86400s | 86400s | 86400s | 1 |